aga
noun
a title of honor, usually implying respect for age.
aga
American
[ah-guh]
/ ˈɑ gə /
Or
agha
noun
-
agas
plural
-
a title of honor, usually implying respect for age.
-
a general.
aga
1
British
/ ˈɑːɡə /
noun
-
a title of respect, often used with the title of a senior position
-
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
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
He hasn’t called me aga in a long time.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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 Robert Curzon
They were in the act of embracing each other, and pledging an inviolable friendship, when I entered the room, conducted by the aga.
From The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' by Julia Pardoe
I went to the house of the aga to seek for a habitation, but the aga was asleep; and who was there so bold as to wake a sleeping aga?
From Visits To Monasteries in the Levant by Robert Curzon
However, making a virtue of necessity, I gravely restored to the aga the robe and turban of his master, and retook my own old caftan, which was a mass of rags.
From The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' by Julia Pardoe
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
Dr Fatima Mir, professor of paediatric medicine at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi, says our footage highlights weaknesses in infection control training in Pakistan.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 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
Aga Bey is his name; and even now, if he had to lay his head down for me, he would lay it down.
From Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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
Examples.—Vivi estas agi; kiu ne agas, tiu ne vivas = To live is to act; he who acts not, lives not.
From The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary by George Cox
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 Victor Hugo
The Musselim or Governor, with the chief agas of the city, mounted on horses superbly caparisoned, and attended by slaves, meet, commonly on Sunday morning, on their playground.
From The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt
The series concludes with a notice Ad interventorem, a person whom we may call A talkative intruder: Non patitur quenquam coram se scriba loquentem: Non est hic quod agas, garrule, perge foras.
From Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods The Rede Lecture Delivered June 13, 1894 by John Willis Clark
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
