Aga Definition

ägə
noun
Used as a title for a civil or military leader, especially in the Ottoman Empire.
American Heritage
In some Muslim countries, a title of respect for important officials.
Webster's New World
Alternative form of AGA (an AGA cooker).
Wiktionary
An AGA cooker.
He was cooking on an AGA.
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pronoun
A river in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia.
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Other Word Forms of Aga

Noun

Singular:
aga
Plural:
gas, agas

Origin of Aga

  • Turkish ağa from Old Turkic aqa older brother

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • An abbreviation of Aktiebolaget Gas Accumulator.

    From Wiktionary

Aga Sentence Examples

  • Hafiz was surrendered, a voluntary martyr; other ministers were deposed; Mustafa Pasha, aga of the janissaries, was saved by his own troops.

  • Khosrev was executed in Asia Minor by his orders; a plot of the spahis to depose him was frustrated by the loyalty of Koes Mahommed, aga of the janissaries, and of the spahi Rum Mahommed (Mahommed the Greek); and on the 29th of May 1632, by a successful personal appeal to the loyalty of the janissaries, Murad crushed the rebels, whom he surrounded in the Hippodrome.

  • A holy war was preached by their leader, Hussein Aga Berberli, a brilliant soldier and orator, who called himself Zmaj Bosanski, the "Dragon of Bosnia," and was regarded by his followers as a saint.

  • The Moslems of Herzegovina, under Ali Pasha Rizvanbegovic, remained loyal to the Porte, but in Bosnia Hussein Aga encountered little resistance.

  • After a desperate defence, Hussein Aga fled to Esseg in Croatia-Slavonia; his appeal for pardon was rejected, and in 1832 he was banished for life to Tribizond.

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