Definition/Meaning of para

• English - Noun: para (plural paras) (historical) A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions. 1854, Bayard Taylor, A Journey to Central Africa; or, Life and Landscapes from Egypt...: 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. para (plural paras) A woman who has given birth or…
• English - Adjective: para (comparative more para, superlative most para) (Australia, UK, slang) Very drunk .
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian pàra / па̀ра , from Ottoman Turkish پاره (pare, para), from Persian پاره (pâre). Etymology 2. Clipping of words such as primipara and multipara . Etymology 3. Clippings. Etymology 4. Clipping of paralytic . Etymology 5. Borrowed from Urdu پاره (pāra), from Persian پاره (pâre).
• English - Pronunciation: (UK) IPA: /ˈpɑːɹə/ (US) IPA: /ˈpɑːɹə/ IPA: /ˈpæɹə/ , /ˈpɑːɹə/ Rhymes: -ɑːɹə Rhymes: -æɹə
• English - Synonyms: Adrian Quist adrip aled up all mops and brooms arseholed a sheet in the wind a sheet in the wind's eye bedrunken befuddled beliquored besotted besotten bevvied bibacious bibulous binned bingoed bladdered blasted blewed blind blind drunk blitzed blocked blootered blottoed blue bollocksed bombed boozy bosky bottled Brahms Brahms and Liszt budgy bungalowed bungfu burlin' canned clobbered