Parva may refer to: *

PARVA Alpha-parvin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''PARVA'' gene In biology, the word gene has two meanings. The Mendelian gene is a basic unit of heredity. The molecular gene is a sequence of nucleotides in DNA that is transcrib ...

, a gene * The 18 parvas, books or chapters of the ''Mahabharata'' * Parva (band), name of English band Kaiser Chiefs from 2000 to 2003 * ''Parva'' (film), a Kannada language film by Sunil Kumar Desai *

Parva (food) In the Paisa region of Colombia, parva refers to a wide variety of small baked goods and sweets that are used as quick snacks or morning meals, and are either sweet or savory. This type of food is usually accompanied with coffee, hot chocolate, o ...

, a class of Colombian baked goods * ''Parva'' (novel), a 1979 novel by S.L Bhyrappa * Parva, a crustacean larval form, found in shrimp * La Parva, a town and ski resort near Santiago, Chile * Parva, Bistrița-Năsăud (), a commune in Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Romania

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 Appleby Magna is a village and civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district, in the county of Leicestershire, England. It includes the small hamlets of Appleby Parva and Little Wigston. Location The parish has a total collective po ...

and

Appleby Parva Appleby Parva, or Little Appleby (Known locally as Over-Town), part of the parish of Appleby Magna in Leicestershire, is a hamlet about south-west of Appleby church. It straddles the A444, south of the crossroads of the highways from Ashby d ...

in Leicestershire, Ash Magna and Ash Parva in Shropshire, and Dalton Magna and Dalton Parva in South Yorkshire.

Place names in England

See also