para
Meanings
Plural: paras
Noun
- (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered
- "a bipara is a woman who has given birth to two children"
- 100 para equal 1 dinar in Yugoslavia
- a soldier in the paratroops
- an estuary in northern Brazil into which the Tocantins River flows
- port city in northern Brazil in the Amazon delta; main port and commercial center for the Amazon River basin
- A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions.
- 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.
- Clipping of paragraph.
- Clipping of paratrooper.
- Clipping of paraprofessional educator.
- Clipping of paraplegic.
- Synonym of king fern (“the plant Ptisana salicina”).
- Synonym of juz.
Adj
- very drunk
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian pàra/па̀ра, from Ottoman Turkish پاره (pare, para), from Persian پاره (pâre).
Synonyms
Belem, drunk, Feliz Lusitania, juz, king fern, Para River, paratrooper, parity, Santa Maria de Belem, St. Mary of Bethlehem
Scrabble Score: 6
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