agá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "aga"

Arua

Etymology

Unknown.

Noun

agá

1. tobacco, parica

References

• Chandless, W. (1869), “Notes of a Journey up the River Juruá”, in The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, volume 39, pages 296-311.

Hamar

Etymology

The -gá ending is apparently comparable to the nominaliser -gáá in Wolaytta hagáá (“this”) and hegáá (“that”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔaɡá/, [ʔaɡá̤]

Pronoun

agá

1. that (demonstrative)

   ɛ́ɛ agá kummáto kidáade

   That man is eating.

References

• Petrollino, Sara (2016), A Grammar of Hamar: A South Omotic language of Ethiopia‎^[1], Leiden University, page 297

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɡa/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈɡa/ [ɐˈɣa]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈɡa/ [ɐˈɣa]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈɡa/

• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: a‧gá

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• hagá (rare, nonstandard)

Noun

agá m (plural agás)

1. The name of the Latin script letter H/h.

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) letra; á, bê, cê, dê, é, efe, gê / guê, agá, i, jota, cá / capa, ele, eme, ene, ó, pê, quê, erre, esse, tê, u, vê, dáblio, xis, ípsilon, zê

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Turkic *āka

Old Anatolian Turkish آقا, آغا (aqa, ağa)

Ottoman Turkish آغا (ağa)bor.

Portuguese agá

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آغا (ağa).

Noun

agá m (plural agás)

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

Further reading

• “agá”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “agá”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Alternative forms

• aga

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Turkic *āka

Old Anatolian Turkish آقا, آغا (aqa, ağa)

Ottoman Turkish آغا (ağa)

French agabor.

Spanish agá

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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025