aga
noun
a title of honor, usually implying respect for age.
aga
American
[ah-guh]
/ ˈɑ gə /
Or
agha
noun
agas
plural
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a title of honor, usually implying respect for age.
-
a general.
aga
1
British
/ ˈɑːɡə /
noun
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a title of respect, often used with the title of a senior position
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a military commander
Aga
2
British
/ ˈɑːɡə /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of aga
First recorded in 1590–1600, aga is from the Turkish word ağa lord
Example Sentences
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He hasn’t called me aga in a long time.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
At Ibrim there is an aga, independent of the governors of Nubia, and the inhabitants pay no taxes.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
At length his impatience could brook no longer delay, and he was on the point of sending the aga to Ousta Omar's, when a porter arrived carrying a deal case covered with green taffeta.
From The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' by Pardoe, Julia
When the aga arrived with the witnesses, the contract was read before them.
From The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' by Pardoe, Julia
A Turkish aga lives here: he is sent by the Porte to collect the revenue from the monks, and also to protect them from other Turkish visitors.
From Visits To Monasteries in the Levant by Curzon, Robert
Aga, a 22-year-old student at the oil-and-gas university in the capital Ashgabat, told AFP investment at the field was creating many jobs.
From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026
Aga Mizgala has spent about seven years living with suspected endometriosis, enduring pain she describes as feeling like "a million little needles."
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026
Founded in 1959 by the late billionaire philanthropist and spiritual leader Aga Khan, it aimed to give a voice to the majority African population, the company says in its profile.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
They first used the Aga on 1 October, but haven't switched their oil boiler on yet.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2025
There were present, besides Mustafa, Rezlán Pasha, Ajas Beg, Rifát Aga, Kara Ogli the Kapudan Pasha, and many more who promised themselves a long life.
From The Slaves of the Padishah by J?kai, M?r
Not more than a few seconds, therefore, elapsed before the agas of the pasha were mounted and in hot pursuit of the fugitive.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle by Francke, Kuno
But yesterday a hundred drums were heard when I went by; Full forty agas turned their looks respectful on mine eye, And trembled with contracted brows within their hall of state.
From Poems by Hugo, Victor
We can take no interest in the boyards of Russia or the boors of Poland; but little in the agas and kuzilbashes of Eastern story.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various
Leaba luachra," he read, "a bed of rushes, bhi fúm aréir, was beneath me last night, agas do chaitheas amach é le banaghadb an lae, and I threw it out with the whitening of day.
From The Wind Bloweth by Donn-Byrne, Brian Oswald
The viziers took their places; the Sultan's divan remains vacant; nearest to it sits the Grand Vizier; farther back sit the pashas, agas, and begs.
From The Slaves of the Padishah by J?kai, M?r
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