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[pah-rah, pahr-ah]

Para may refer to:

Para-, in English, is an affix of Greek and Latin origin meaning beside, near, past, beyond or contrary
Para Dog-faced Bat, a bat species from South and Central America
Para Loga, one among the seven Logas (seven upper worlds) in Ayyavazhi mythology
Para-Ordnance, a firearms manufacturer located in Toronto, Ontario
Parapraxis or Freudian Slip (Fehlleistung) is an error in speech, memory, or physical action that is believed to be caused by the unconscious mind.
Para-quaternions, expression from algebra in mathematics
Para Red, is a chemical dye
Pará rubber tree, often simply called rubber tree
Para Spiny Rat, a species from South America
Para-statals, state-owned corporations that play a major role in the government and economy of many countries around the world
Para (Marattia salicina), a fern found in New Zealand and Norfolk Island
Para isomer in chemistry, a type of arene substitution pattern
André Cordeiro, a Brazilian water polo player who is nicknamed Pará
The suffix 'para' is used after a noun in Assamese to define a village or a town. e.g. Goalpara
A member of the Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom)
Para- isomers of benzene rings have attached chemical groups separated by two unsubstituted carbon atoms
Paramedic is a first response ambulance crew member.
Paralympics are the international games for disabled athletes.Abbreviations
Philippine Amateur Radio Association
Pan American Rugby Association

PARA Pan American Championship, the major international rugby tournament held in the Americas, organized by the Pan American Rugby Association

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Para abajo, a dance movement in salsa
Para-balloon, a tool for games or a series of games around this tools
Para Handy, the anglicized Gaelic nickname of the fictional character Peter Macfarlane, a character created by the journalist and writer Neil Munro

Para Toda Vida (2001), an album by The New AmsterdamsPeople
Para Draine (born 1972), American female boxerPlaces
Grão-Pará, was one of the two Portuguese vice-kingdoms in South America
Pará, one of the states of Brazil
Para District, a district in the north of Suriname (country in South America)
Pará River (Portuguese: Rio Pará), the southern arm of the mouth of the Amazon River
North Para River, through the Barossa Valley in South Australia
South Para River, South Australia

Electoral district of Little Para, an electorate for the South Australian Legislative Assembly
Little Para River, through Salisbury in South Australia

Para, Purulia is a town, community development bloc and assembly constituency in Purulia district in the Indian state of West Bengal
La Para, a summit in the Swiss AlpsCurrency
Para (currency), various currency units
Para means "money" in Turkish and other languages influenced by Turkish in their history (including Serbian and Bulgarian)

Para means "money" in Turkish
Para means "daynight; 24 hours; circadia" in Lithuanian (no equivalent in English!)
Para is short for paratrooper in French.
Para means "stop" in Portuguese and Spanish
Para in Bengali, a word which means a neighbourhood or locality
Para is a preposition in Portuguese and Spanish meaning "for,"
Para means "cow" in Hebrew
Para means "pair/couple" in Russian and Polish
Para means "steam/vapor" in Polish, Slovak, Serbian, Bulgarian
Para is the term for a portion of the Qur'an in Urdu, Hindi, and Persian (the equivalent Arabic term is جزء, juz', "part")
Para Shakti (Sanskrit,) "the great or supreme or light or heat force.
Para Tattva, a Sanskrit phrase meaning “Supreme Truth"