aga
noun
a title of honor, usually implying respect for age.
aga
American
[ah-guh]
/ ˈɑ gə /
Or
agha
noun
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agas
plural
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a title of honor, usually implying respect for age.
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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
We were received heartily by the aga, and after resting five or six days to recover, we retraced our steps to Saffieha, and I had the satisfaction of recovering all my baggage.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
Each community, like the communes of France, sends an aga, or representative, to the supreme council.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
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
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 Julia Pardoe
The trust's partnership with the Aga Khan Foundation supported her to rejoin school, and she now provides training to other girls and encourages them to stay in education.
From BBC ● May 11, 2026
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
The writer was known as the "queen of the Aga saga" because her novels often focused on romance and intrigue in middle England, although she rejected the tag as "patronising".
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
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
A Latin couplet, cited by one of the old commentators, puts the matter compactly together for us:— "Litera gesta refert; quid credas allegoria; Moralis quid agas; quid speres anagogia."
From Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell
But in reality none was awaiting an audience in the ante-room, there were no splendid envoys there, no humble petitioners, no agas, no messengers, none but the Vizier's own slaves.
From The Slaves of the Padishah by M?r J?kai
Do threasgar an saoghal agas do thainic an gaoth mar smal—; Alastrom, Cæsar, 's an mead do bhi da bpairt; Ta an Teamhair na fear agas feach an Traoi mar ta!
From The Wind Bloweth by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
"Quidquid ages—prudenter agas, et respice finem"—and I was a fool,—here I am alone like Shelly's moon, and "pardessus-le-marché"—robbed!
From Rescuing the Czar Two authentic Diaries arranged and translated by James P. Smythe
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