Meaning

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

noun 100 para equal 1 dinar in Yugoslavia

noun a soldier in the paratroops

originBorrowed from Serbo-Croatian pàra /па̀ра, from Ottoman Turkish پاره (pare, para), from Persian پاره (pâre).

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