agá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "aga"

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɡa/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈɡa/ [ɐˈɣa]

Rhymes: -a
Hyphenation: a‧gá

Etymology 1

From *aca, variant form of Vulgar Latin *acca (“aitch”).

Alternative forms

hagá (rare)

Noun

agá m (plural agás)

aitch (name of the letter H, h)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آغا (ağa).

Noun

agá m (plural agás)

(historical) agha (honorific for high officials in the Ottoman Empire)

Spanish

Alternative forms

aga

Etymology

Borrowed from French aga, from Ottoman Turkish آغا (ağa).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /aˈɡa/ [aˈɣ̞a]
Rhymes: -a
Syllabification: a‧gá

Noun

agá m (plural agás)

(historical) agha (honorific for high officials in the Ottoman Empire)

Further reading

“agá”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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