aga

See also: AGA, Aga, agą, ága, äga, ağa, and āgā

English

Noun

aga (plural agas)

  1. Alternative spelling of agha
    • 1775, Chandler, Richard, Travels in Asia Minor, or, An account of a tour made at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 229:
      They were headed by a Chiauſh or the Meſſinger of an Aga, who commanded in a ſmall village to the weſt of Pambouk.

Anagrams

Cornish

Alternative forms

  • (short form) gà
  • (following some prepositions) -'ga

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈæɡə/

Determiner

aga

  1. their

Estonian

Conjunction

aga

  1. but

French

Alternative forms

Noun

aga m (plural agas)

  1. aga, agha

Further reading

Galician

Preposition

aga

  1. Alternative form of agás

Hiligaynon

Noun

ága (diminutive agá-ága)

  1. morning

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آغا‎ (aghā, “lord”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɒɡɒ]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: aga

Noun

aga (plural agák)

  1. agha

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative aga agák
accusative agát agákat
dative agának agáknak
instrumental agával agákkal
causal-final agáért agákért
translative agává agákká
terminative agáig agákig
essive-formal agaként agákként
essive-modal — —
inessive agában agákban
superessive agán agákon
adessive agánál agáknál
illative agába agákba
sublative agára agákra
allative agához agákhoz
elative agából agákból
delative agáról agákról
ablative agától agáktól
Possessive forms of aga
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. agám agáim
2nd person sing. agád agáid
3rd person sing. agája agái
1st person plural agánk agáink
2nd person plural agátok agáitok
3rd person plural agájuk agáik

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaːɣa/
  • Rhymes: -aːɣa

Verb

aga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative agaði, supine agað)

  1. (transitive, with accusative) to discipline

Conjugation

agast — mediopassive voice (miðmynd)
infinitive
(nafnháttur)		 að agast
supine
(sagnbót)		 agast
present participle
(lýsingarháttur nútíðar)		 agandist **
** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses
indicative
(framsöguháttur)		 subjunctive
(viðtengingarháttur)
present
(nútíð)		 ég agast við ögumst present
(nútíð)		 ég agist við ögumst
þú agast þið agist þú agist þið agist
hann, hún, það agast þeir, þær, þau agast hann, hún, það agist þeir, þær, þau agist
past
(þátíð)		 ég agaðist við öguðumst past
(þátíð)		 ég agaðist við öguðumst
þú agaðist þið öguðust þú agaðist þið öguðust
hann, hún, það agaðist þeir, þær, þau öguðust hann, hún, það agaðist þeir, þær, þau öguðust
imperative
(boðháttur)		 agast (þú) agist (þið)
Forms with appended personal pronoun
agastu agisti *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
  • agi (“discipline, constraint”)

Irish

Noun

aga m (genitive singular aga, nominative plural agaí)

  1. period of time, interval
  2. distance

Declension

Derived terms

  • agaigh (“space out, stagger”, verb)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aga n-aga haga t-aga
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aɣa/

Verb

aga (infinitive kwaga)

  1. to lack, to miss, to fail to find

Derived terms

(Nouns)

  • mwagi class 1

(Proverbs)

  • (kanua) karĩ mata gatiagaga wa kuuga
  • ng'enda thĩ ndĩagaga mũtegi
  • nyũngũ ya mũingĩ ndĩagaga mũteng'ũri
  • riko na nda itiagaga
  • thũ ndĩagaga mwenji

References

  • Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 360. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  • Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, p. 45.

Ladin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin aqua.

Noun

aga f (plural [please provide])

  1. (Brach) water

Old Norse

Verb

aga

  1. to threaten
  2. to look dangerous

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish ağa (“lord”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaɡa/

Noun

aga m pers

  1. agha

Declension

References

  1. ↑ Elżbieta Sobol (red.), Mały słownik języka polskiego, wyd. XI, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 1994. →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ǎɡa/
  • Hyphenation: a‧ga

Noun

àga m (Cyrillic spelling а̀га)

  1. agha
  2. (dated) master
  3. (dated) patron

Declension

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse agi.

Noun

aga c

  1. (uncountable) corporal punishment (especially of children), beating
Declension
Declension of aga 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative aga agan agor agorna
Genitive agas agans agors agornas

Etymology 2

From Old Norse aga.

Verb

aga (present agar, preterite agade, supine agat, imperative aga)

  1. to beat, to punish corporally, to discipline
Conjugation

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آغا‎ (ağa).

Noun

aga c

  1. an agha (Turkish title)
Declension
Declension of aga 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative aga agan agor agorna
Genitive agas agans agors agornas

References

Tagalog

Adjective

aga

  1. Early.
    Ang aga ng dating mo ngayon, ah.
    You sure came early today.

See also

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish آغا‎ (aghā).

Noun

aga (definite accusative agayı, plural agalar)

  1. (dialectal) big brother
  2. (dialectal) rich man

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse agi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɑ̀ːɣɐ], [òːɣɐ]
    Rhymes: -ɒ̀ːɣɐ

Noun

aga m

  1. fear, horror, trepidation
    Ligg på agan
    to sleep anxiously
  • agalaus
  • agasam
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