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Paren vs Pa - What's the difference?

paren | pa |

As nouns the difference between paren and pa

is that paren is (informal) a parenthesis (bracket used to enclose parenthetical material in text) while pa is head.

paren

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (informal) A parenthesis (bracket used to enclose parenthetical material in text).
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    pa

    Translingual

    Symbol

    (head)
  • The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for Panama.
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