agá
See also: Appendix:Variations of "aga"
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -a
- Hyphenation: a‧gá
Etymology 1 edit
From *aca, variant form of Vulgar Latin *acca (“aitch”).
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
agá m (plural agás)
- aitch (name of the letter H, h)
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آغا (ağa).
Noun edit
agá m (plural agás)
- (historical) agha (honorific for high officials in the Ottoman Empire)
Spanish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French aga, from Ottoman Turkish آغا (ağa).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
agá m (plural agás)
- (historical) agha (honorific for high officials in the Ottoman Empire)
Further reading edit
- “agá”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014