Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian pàra /па̀ра, from Ottoman Turkish پاره (pare, para), from Persian پاره (pâre).
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(historical) A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions.
She managed things with so much economy that she was enabled to save two paras every day, out of the piastre which he gave her. 1854, Bayard Taylor, A Journey to Central Africa; or, Life and Landscapes from Egypt...:
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hy փարա (currency) · fa پاره (currency) · hu para (currency)
para en · NOUN · etymology 2
Pronunciation
/ˈpɑːɹə/
/ˈpæɹə/
Etymology
Clipping of words such as primipara and multipara.
Meanings
A woman who has given birth or brought pregnancies to viable gestational age a certain number of times, indicated by the number prepended to this word.
The problems that male paras encounter in relation to bladder management pale in significance when placed alongside the problems with bladder management that female paraplegics experience. For women paras, attempts are made to train the bladder to empty itself at regular intervals; however, accidents do happen. 2010, Shelley Lynn Tremain, editor, Foucault and the Government of Disability:
(US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal) Clipping of paraprofessional educator.
Family of dead para launch legal challenge to Northern Ireland legacy legislation [title] 2023 September 26, Dan Sabbagh, “Family of dead para launch legal challenge to Northern Ireland legacy legislation”, in The Guardian, →ISSN: