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
When the aga had learnt the message by heart he withdrew, and Ajas Pasha turned to Feriz Beg complacently: "Trouble not thyself further," said he, "in a couple of days the murderers will be here."
From The Slaves of the Padishah by M?r J?kai
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
He did not care for a monk, and not much for an agoumenos; but he felt small in the presence of a mighty Turkish aga.
From Visits To Monasteries in the Levant by Robert Curzon
Frequently the Sultan trembled before such pretorians, and the chief aga of those "lambs" was one of the most important dignitaries in the Divan.
From Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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
Aga told BBC News how the symptoms have shaped her life.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026
Aga said: "I think it's very helpful to actually see what the surgeon is talking about."
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026
When Aga Khan grew up he managed to reconcile his followers to the orthodox Mohammedan faith.
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers
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
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 Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
He was sitting at the tent in the midst of mullahs and agas in expectation of news; while waiting, he was eating dates from a silver plate standing near.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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
"Gloir do'n Athair, agas do'n Mhac, agas do'n Spiorad Naomh," went the drone of the rosary within.
From The Wind Bloweth by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
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