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)

1. aitch (name of the letter H, h)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آغا (ağa).

Noun

agá m (plural agás)

1. (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)

1. (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