Para Explained

Para, or PARA, may refer to:

Businesses, professions, and organizations

• Paramount Global, traded as PARA on the Nasdaq stock exchange
• Para Group, the former name of CT Corp
• Para Rubber, now Skellerup, a New Zealand manufacturer
• Para USA, formerly Para-Ordnance, a firearms manufacturer
• Pan American Rugby Association
• Philippine Amateur Radio Association
• Paraprofessional
• Paralegal
• Paramilitary, organisations not part of the armed forces but operate as such
• Paramedic
• Parapsychology, the study of alleged psychic phenomena

People

• Pará (footballer, born 1986), Marcos Rogério Ricci Lopes
• Pará (footballer, born 1987), Erinaldo Rabelo Santos
• Pará (footballer, born 1995), Anderson Ferreira da Silva
• Pará (footballer, born 2002), Luis Felipe Rabelo Costa
• André Cordeiro (water polo) (born 1967), nicknamed Pará, Brazilian water polo player
• Para Draine (born 1972), American female boxer
• Begum Para (1926–2008), Indian film actress

Places

• Para (Bengali), a Bengali word meaning neighborhood or locality
• Pará, a state of Brazil
• Para (community development block), Purulia district, West Bengal, India
  • Para, Purulia
  • Para (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
• Para, Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh, India
• Para, Rajasthan, India
• Para, Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, India
• Para, Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, India
• Para, Ivory Coast
• Para District, Suriname
• Para River (disambiguation)
• La Para, a summit in the Swiss Alps

Science and technology

• Parity (biology), the number of times a woman has given birth, e.g. para 1 etc.
• Para, common name of fern Ptisana salicina
• para, symbol for the fruit fly gene paralytic (gene)
• Para- (chemistry), a position of a substituent on a cyclic hydrocarbon
• Para red, a dye

Special forces

• Para Commando Brigade (Bangladesh), special forces of the Bangladeshi Army
• Para (Special Forces), special forces of the Indian Army
• Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom), elite infantry of the British Army, known as The Paras
• Paratrooper, a military parachutist
  • Paracommando, a paratrooper and commando

Other uses

• Para (currency), a former currency of the Ottoman Empire
• Para language, an unclassified Naga language of India and Burma
• Para Handy, a fictional character in the Glasgow Evening News
• Para Loga, one among the seven Logas (upper worlds) in Ayyavazhi mythology
• Para Shakti, a Hindu goddess of the Shakti type sometimes concatenated Parashakti
• Brazilian ship Pará, a list of ships
• Juz', or para, a division of the Quran

See also

• Paras (disambiguation)
• Param (disambiguation)
• List of commonly used taxonomic affixes
• Para Para, a popular Japanese solo dance
• Paara (film), a 1985 Indian film
• "Paaraa", a song from the 2024 Indian film Indian 2
• Parachute Regiment (disambiguation)
• Paralympic Games, international games for athletes with a disability