What is "para"

Para \Pa*ra"\, n. [Turk., fr. Per. p[=a]rah a piece.] A piece of Turkish money, usually copper, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one ninth of a cent.

Etymology 1 n. Formerly, a subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions. Etymology 2

n. (context medicine English) A woman who has had a certain number of pregnancy, indicated by the number prepended to this word. Etymology 3

n. A paragraph. Etymology 4

n. A paratrooper. Etymology 5

a. (context UK Australia slang English) very drunk

1. n. (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]

Pará is a state in northern Brazil traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of (clockwise from north) Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Roraima. To the northwest it also borders Guyana and Suriname, and to the northeast it borders the Atlantic Ocean. The capital and largest city is Belém, located at the mouth of the Amazon at the Atlantic Ocean and the 11th most populous city in the country.

Pará is the most populous state of the northern region, with a population of over 7.5 million, being the ninth-most populous state in Brazil. It is the second-largest state of Brazil in area, with 1,2 million km², second only to Amazonas upriver. Its most famous icons are the Amazon River and the Amazon Rainforest. Pará produces rubber (extracted from natural rubber tree groves), tropical hardwoods such as mahogany, and minerals such as iron ore and bauxite. A new commodity crop is soy, cultivated in the region of Santarém.

Every October, Belém receives tens of thousands of tourists for the year's most important religious celebration, the procession of the Círio de Nazaré. Another important attraction of the capital is the Marajó-style ceramics, based on pottery from the extinct Marajó indigenous culture, which was located on an island in the Amazon River. These designs have gained considerable international fame and increased international awareness.

The para ( Cyrillic: пара, from Turkish para, from Persian pārah, "piece" ) was a former currency of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Montenegro, Albania and Yugoslavia and is the current subunit, although rarely used, of the Serbian dinar.

As a former Ottoman and Turkish currency, it was 1/40 of a kuruş, which was, in turn, 1/100 of a Turkish lira. It was also earlier 3 akçe The modern Turkish lira is only divided into kuruş. In Serbia, the para has been the subunit of the dinar since the 19th century. The Montenegrin perper was subdivided into 100 pare during its brief existence between 1906 and 1918. In Albania, the para was used as a currency before the introduction of the Albanian lek in 1926.

In Albanian, Greek, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Romanian, Serbian and Turkish, para or its plural παράδες, pari, pare, parale, parai, paraja or paralar is a generic term for " money".

Para may refer to:

Para (community development block) is an administrative division in Raghunathpur subdivision of Purulia district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Para and Santaldih police stations serve this block. Headquarters of this block is at Para. Santaldih and Chapari are urban area in this block.

Marcos Rogério Ricci Lopes (born 14 February 1986), commonly known as Pará, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a right back for Flamengo, on loan from Grêmio.

Para (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Purulia district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Anderson Ferreira da Silva, commonly known as Pará (born 23 August 1995), is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Figueirense, on loan from Cruzeiro as a left back.

Para (Special Forces) is a special forces unit of the Indian Army's Parachute Regiment and is tasked with missions such as special operations, direct action, hostage rescue, counter-terrorism, unconventional warfare, special reconnaissance, foreign internal defense, counter-proliferation, counter-insurgency, seek and destroy and personnel recovery. The unit's heritage stems from World War II, with the creation 50th Parachute Brigade in October 1941.