para

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.