Parva
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Parva may refer to:
- Parava Biggest Village Name in Reddigudem Mandal, Krishna District, A.P, India.
- Parava means occasion or festive occasion in Sanskrit and many other Indian languages.
- Parva are also episodes in an epic, e.g. The Mahabharata has 18 parvas or 18 Books
- Parva (novel), a novel by S.L Bhyrappa
- Parva (film), a Kannada language film by Sunil Kumar Desai
- Parva (Hungarian: Párva), a commune in Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Romania
- PARVA, a gene
- a predecessor of the band Kaiser Chiefs, named after Ruston Parva/Little Ruston in England
- Parva, a crustacean larval form, found in shrimp
- Parva (food), a class of Colombian baked goods
Place names in England
There are several locations where one settlement is named "Magna" and another nearby "Parva". In this context, magna and parva are the Latin terms for "great" and "little" respectively. Examples include Appleby Magna and Appleby Parva in Leicestershire, and Ash Magna and Ash Parva in Shropshire.
See also
- Pareve, sometimes pronounced parva, classification of food in the laws of kashrut
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