BA, Ba or ba may stand for:

Abbreviations

• Bachelor of Arts, see Bachelor's degree
• the chemical symbol for the element barium (Ba)
• Bashkir language (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code, ba)
• Brodmann area, according to Korbinian Brodmann
• Breathing apparatus

A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B., from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... General Name, Symbol, Number barium, Ba, 56 Chemical series alkaline earth metals Group, Period, Block 2, 6, s Appearance silvery white Atomic mass 137. ... The Bashkir language is a Turkic language, a member of the Kyphchak group of languages. ... ISO 639 is one of several international standards that lists short codes for language names. ... Brodmann Areas in the Human Brain with an Emphasis on Vision and Language A Brodmann area is a region in the brains cortex that is defined by its histologic characteristics. ... Korbinian Brodmann (November 17, 1868 - August 22, 1918) was a German neurologist who became famous for his definition of the cerebral cortex into 52 distinct regions from their cytoarchitectonic (histological) characteristics. ... For breathing apparatus used underwater, see scuba sets and rebreather and surface supplied diving. ...

Corporations & institutions

• British Army
• Bank of America
• Boeing Company (stock symbol)
• Boston and Albany Railroad (AAR reporting mark BA)
• British Airways, a major British, International Airline (IATA airline designator)
• British Association for the Advancement of Science

The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ... Typical Bank of America consumer banking center Bank of America (BofA) NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 , based in Charlotte, North Carolina, is the third largest commercial bank in the United States, measured in assets, and the third-largest company in the world by the 2006 Forbes Global 2000. ... The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA, TYO: 7661 ) is the world’s largest aircraft manufacturer. ... The Boston and Albany Railroad ( AAR reporting mark BA) was a railroad connecting Boston, Massachusetts to Albany, New York. ... A World War II era print advertisement for the Association of American Railroads (AAR). ... Reporting marks on two CP Rail covered hoppers passing Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, June 20, 2004. ... British Airways (LSE: BAY, NYSE: BAB) is the largest airline of the United Kingdom. ... The British Association or the British Association for the Advancement of Science or the BA is a learned society with the object of promoting science, directing general attention to scientific matters, and facilitating intercourse between scientific workers. ...

Places

• Ba: a town in Fiji.
• Ba: a province in Fiji.
• Ba, an ancient Chinese culture that straddled eastern Sichuan and western Hubei.
• Bosnia and Herzegovina (ISO 2-letter country code)
• Bahrain (FIPS 10-4 country code)
• Buenos Aires
• Bath: BA is the United Kingdom post code for the region in south-western England which is served by Bath postal sorting office. (See list of UK areas).
• The state county code for Barber County, Kansas

Ba is a town in Fiji, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Lautoka, inland from the coast of Viti Levu, Fijis largest island. ... Ba is a town in Fiji, 23 miles away from Lautoka, off the coast. ... Ba (巴) was an ancient state in eastern Sichuan, China. ... ISO 3166-1, as part of the ISO 3166 standard, provides codes for the names of countries and dependent areas. ... Buenos Aires (English: Fair Winds; originally Ciudad de la Santísima Trinidad y Puerto de Santa María de los Buenos Aires, City of the Holy Trinity and Port of Saint Mary of the Fair Winds) is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port, and one of... For other uses, see Bath (disambiguation). ... A postal code (known in various countries as a post code, postcode, or ZIP code) is a series of letters and/or digits appended to a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail. ... The UK postal system runs on a system of alphanumeric codes, or Postcodes. ... This is a listing of counties in the State of Kansas. ... Barber County (standard abbreviation: BA) is a county located in the state of Kansas. ...

Other

• BA stands for British Association screw threads.
• ba
• A formal nickname for the senior male person in Burmese community. [Ah-Ba , Ba Ba, Ba Gyi]
• an archaic two-letter English word meaning "to kiss".
• a word for ram, in the Egyptian language.
• in Egyptian mythology:
  1. One part of the ancient Egyptian concept of the soul (which was imagined as a bird body with a human head).
  2. Banebdjed, a ram-god of birth, essentially the soul (the ba) of Osiris.
  3. Kneph, a ram-god, of the soul, and thus of birth.
• B.A. Baracus, a character played by Mr. T on the television series The A-Team
• Internet chat slang for "Back Again"
• Internet slang for "bad ass"

See also: .ba (the ccTLD for Bosnia and Herzegovina). British Association or BA screw threads are a largely obsolete set of small screw threads, the largest being 0BA at 6mm diameter. ... The English language contains various two-letter words. ... Binomial name Ovis aries Linnaeus, 1758 A sheep is any of several woolly ruminant quadrupeds, but most commonly the Domestic Sheep (Ovis aries), which probably descends from the wild moufflon of south-central and south-west Asia. ... Written records of the ancient Egyptian language have been dated from about 3200 BC. Egyptian is a a negro african Coptic language. ... Egyptian mythology or Egyptian religion is the succession of tentative beliefs held by the people of Egypt for over three thousand years, prior to major exposure to Christianity and Islam. ... In Egyptian mythology, the human soul is made up of seven parts: the Ren, Sekem, the Akh, the Ba, the Ka, the Sheut, and the Sekhu. ... Osiris (Greek language, also Usiris; the Egyptian language name is variously transliterated Asar, Aser, Ausar, or Ausare) is the Egyptian God of the dead and the underworld. ... Osiris (Greek language, also Usiris; the Egyptian language name is variously transliterated Asar, Aser, Ausar, or Ausare) is the Egyptian God of the dead and the underworld. ... Kneph was an Egyptian god who was originally the supreme god for people at Elephantine. ... The A-Team was an American action adventure television series about a fictional group of ex-US Army commandos who are on the run from the military while working as soldiers of fortune. ... The A-Team was an American action adventure television series about a fictional group of ex-US Army commandos who are on the run from the military while working as soldiers of fortune. ... .ba is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is a top-level domain used and reserved for a country or a dependent territory. ...