noun. A prefix of Greek origin, meaning ‘from beside,’ ‘beside,’ ‘near,’ ‘by,’ etc. See etymology.

noun. An abbreviation of Paraguay.

noun. A copper coin of Servia (one centime).

noun. A coin of the Turkish dominions, struck in silver and in copper, and current from the end of the seventeenth century.

noun. (pä′ rä). In the East Indies, a measure of capacity (at Bombay 3⅓ bushels); also, a measure of weight (at Ceylon from 30 to 50 pounds, according to the commodity, as coffee, pepper, rice, etc.).

noun. A piece of Turkish money, usually copper, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one ninth of a cent.

noun. Formerly, a subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions.

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

adjective. very drunk

noun. A paragraph.

noun. A paratrooper.

noun. (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered

noun. 100 para equal 1 dinar in Yugoslavia

noun. port city in northern Brazil in the Amazon delta; main port and commercial center for the Amazon River basin

noun. a soldier in the paratroops

noun. an estuary in northern Brazil into which the Tocantins River flows