para

1 (obstetrics) the number of live-born children a woman has delivered; "the parity of the mother must be considered"; "a bipara is a woman who has given birth to two children" [syn: parity]

2 100 para equal 1 dinar

3 a soldier in the paratroops [syn: paratrooper]

4 an estuary in northern Brazil into which the Tocantins River flows [syn: Para River]

5 port city in northern Brazil in the Amazon delta; main port and commercial center for the Amazon River basin [syn: Belem, Feliz Lusitania, Santa Maria de Belem, St. Mary of Bethlehem]

English

Etymology 1

Noun

1. Formerly, one-hundredth of a dinar in Yugoslavia and, later, in the constituent states of that country.

Etymology 2

The second part of words such as primipara and multipara

Noun

1. A woman who has had a certain number of pregnancies, indicated by the number prepended to this word.

Related terms

• multipara
• nullipara
• primipara

See also

• gravida

Etymology 3

Shortened from paragraph

Noun

1. Short form of paragraph.

Etymology 4

Shortened from paratrooper

Noun

1. Short form of paratrooper.

Albanian

Preposition

para

1. before

Bosnian

Noun

para

1. steam
2. vapor
3. money

Crimean Tatar

Noun

para

1. cash, money.

Declension

Synonyms

• aqça

Croatian

Noun

1. steam

Declension

Finnish

Noun

para

1. (witchcraft) A being created to bring milk or butter to its creator.

Derived terms

• paranvoi

French

Verb

1. Form of Third-person singular past historic, parer

Guaraní

Noun

1. sea

Hungarian

Noun

para

1. cork

Indonesian

Adverb

para

1. some (when talking about people)

Lithuanian

Noun

para

1. 24 hours (day)

   Aš manau kad užtruks apie vieną parą. — I think it will take about 24 hours.

Polish

Pronunciation

Noun

1. steam
2. couple
3. pair

Declension

Portuguese

Preposition

1. for (towards)

Quechua

Noun

para

1. rain

Serbian

Noun

para

1. steam
2. vapor
3. money

Cyrillic spelling

• пара

Spanish

Etymology

A corruption of the older form pora (a combination of por and a), influenced by the archaic preposition par. http://ab.dip-caceres.org/alcantara/alcantara_online/53_54/53_54_003f.htm

Preposition

para

1. for

Synonyms

• pa’ (colloquial)

See also

• por

Turkish

Noun

para

1. money

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
• 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
• Pan American Rugby Association
  • PARA Pan American Championship, the major international rugby tournament held in the Americas, organized by the Pan American Rugby Association
• Peoples Action for Rural Awakening
• 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
  • The Tales of Para Handy, a Scottish television series
• Para Para, a popular Japanese solo dance
  • Para Para Paradise, a video series, showing various dancers doing Para Para
• Para Toda Vida (2001), an album by The New Amsterdams
• Para Draine (born 1972), American female boxer
• 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
  • South Para Reservoir, the second largest reservoir in South Australia
• Electoral district of Little Para, an electorate for the South Australian Legislative Assembly
• Little Para River, through Salisbury in South Australia
  • Little Para Reservoir
• Para, Purulia is a town, community development bloc and assembly constituency in Purulia district in the Indian state of West Bengal
• Para (currency), various currency units
• Para means "money" in Turkish and other languages influenced by Turkish in their history (including Serbian and Bulgarian)
  • Para was a subunit of Ottoman currency
  • Para is of the Yugoslav dinar and Serbian dinar
  • Para was of the Montenegrin perper
• Para means "money" in Turkish
• 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"

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