aga
English edit
Noun edit
aga (plural agas)
- Alternative spelling of agha
- 1775, Richard Chandler, 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 edit
Albanian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آغا (aġa, “a lord or master”).[1]
Noun edit
aga m (plural agallarë, definite agai, definite plural agallarët)
- agha, Ottoman nobleman with a landed estate (ranging below bey)
- (old) rich man
- (old) clan chief
- (derogatory) pretentious or officious person
References edit
Further reading edit
Asi edit
Noun edit
aga
Bikol Central edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Philippine *ága.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aga (Basahan spelling ᜀᜄ)
Derived terms edit
Bola edit
Noun edit
aga
References edit
- Brent Wiebe, Bola (Bola-Bakovi) Language Organized Phonology Data, p. 2
Bourbonnais-Berrichon edit
Alternative forms edit
- argarde (Moulins Dialect and Berrichon)
Verb edit
aga[1]
- look at (imperative mood)
References edit
- ^ 1904, Paul Duchon, Grammaire et Dictionnaire Du Patois Bourbonnais (canton De Vareness), page 21:
Cornish edit
Alternative forms edit
- (short form) gà
- (following some prepositions) -'ga
Pronunciation edit
Determiner edit
aga
Eskayan edit
Noun edit
aga
Estonian edit
Conjunction edit
aga
French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish آغا (ağa, “lord, master”).
Noun edit
aga m (plural agas)
Further reading edit
- “aga”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician edit
Preposition edit
aga
- Alternative form of agás
Hiligaynon edit
Noun edit
aga (diminutive agá-ága)
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آغا (aghā, “lord”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aga (plural agák)
- agha
- A koppányi aga testamentuma (the title of a 1937 novel by István Fekete, cinematized in 1967[1])
- The Testament of Koppány’s Agha
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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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 |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
agáé | agáké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
agáéi | agákéi |
Possessive forms of aga | ||
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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 |
References edit
Further reading edit
- aga in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- aga in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
See the noun agi (“discipline”)
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
aga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative agaði, supine agað)
- (transitive, with accusative) to discipline
Conjugation edit
infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að aga | ||||
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supine (sagnbót) |
agað | ||||
present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) |
agandi | ||||
indicative (framsöguháttur) |
subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) | ||||
present (nútíð) |
ég aga | við ögum | present (nútíð) |
ég agi | við ögum |
þú agar | þið agið | þú agir | þið agið | ||
hann, hún, það agar | þeir, þær, þau aga | hann, hún, það agi | þeir, þær, þau agi | ||
past (þátíð) |
ég agaði | við öguðum | past (þátíð) |
ég agaði | við öguðum |
þú agaðir | þið öguðuð | þú agaðir | þið öguðuð | ||
hann, hún, það agaði | þeir, þær, þau öguðu | hann, hún, það agaði | þeir, þær, þau öguðu | ||
imperative (boðháttur) |
aga (þú) | agið (þið) | |||
Forms with appended personal pronoun | |||||
agaðu | agiði * | ||||
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred. |
infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að agast | ||||
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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. |
strong declension (sterk beyging) |
singular (eintala) | plural (fleirtala) | |||||
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masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) |
masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) | ||
nominative (nefnifall) |
agaður | öguð | agað | agaðir | agaðar | öguð | |
accusative (þolfall) |
agaðan | agaða | agað | agaða | agaðar | öguð | |
dative (þágufall) |
öguðum | agaðri | öguðu | öguðum | öguðum | öguðum | |
genitive (eignarfall) |
agaðs | agaðrar | agaðs | agaðra | agaðra | agaðra | |
weak declension (veik beyging) |
singular (eintala) | plural (fleirtala) | |||||
masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) |
masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) | ||
nominative (nefnifall) |
agaði | agaða | agaða | öguðu | öguðu | öguðu | |
accusative (þolfall) |
agaða | öguðu | agaða | öguðu | öguðu | öguðu | |
dative (þágufall) |
agaða | öguðu | agaða | öguðu | öguðu | öguðu | |
genitive (eignarfall) |
agaða | öguðu | agaða | öguðu | öguðu | öguðu |
Related terms edit
- agi (“discipline, constraint”)
Indonesian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Malay aga, from Classical Malay اڬ (aga).
Adjective edit
aga
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Kulisusu [Term?].
Noun edit
aga (first-person possessive agaku, second-person possessive agamu, third-person possessive aganya)
- fish louse (Argulus spp.).
- Synonym: kutu ikan
Etymology 3 edit
Verb edit
aga
- to look with the intention of laughing or challenging
Further reading edit
- “aga” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Irish edit
Etymology edit
Variant form of eang with semantic narrowing.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aga m (genitive singular aga, nominative plural agaí)
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
- agaigh (“space out, stagger”, verb)
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | |||
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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. |
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aga”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 75
Kabuverdianu edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Portuguese água.
Noun edit
aga
References edit
- Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN
- Veiga, Manuel (2012) Dicionário Caboverdiano-Português, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro
Kikuyu edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
aga (infinitive kwaga)
Derived terms edit
(Nouns)
- mwagi class 1
(Proverbs)
- ithĩnjĩro rĩtiagaga thakame
- (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 edit
- 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.
Laboya edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *apa.
Pronoun edit
aga
- what (interrogative pronoun)
References edit
- Blust, Robert, Trussel, Stephen (2010–) “*apa₁”, in The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary
Ladin edit
Alternative forms edit
- ega (Cazét)
Etymology edit
Noun edit
aga f (plural [please provide])
- (Brach) water
Lindu edit
Conjunction edit
aga
Northern Kurdish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aga m (Arabic spelling ئاگا)
- Alternative form of agah
Declension edit
References edit
- Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “aga”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 2
Northern Sotho edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Bantu *-jáka, a variant of Proto-Bantu *-jíbaka.
Verb edit
aga
- to build
Old Frisian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *aigan (“to possess”). Cognates include Old English āgan and Old Saxon ēgan.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
āga
References edit
- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *agōną, related to agi (“terror”), from Proto-Germanic *agô, form of *agaz (“fear, dread”).
Verb edit
aga
Conjugation edit
infinitive | aga | |
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present participle | agandi | |
past participle | agaðr | |
indicative | present | past |
1st-person singular | aga | agaða |
2nd-person singular | agar | agaðir |
3rd-person singular | agar | agaði |
1st-person plural | ǫgum | ǫguðum |
2nd-person plural | agið | ǫguðuð |
3rd-person plural | aga | ǫguðu |
subjunctive | present | past |
1st-person singular | aga | agaða |
2nd-person singular | agir | agaðir |
3rd-person singular | agi | agaði |
1st-person plural | agim | agaðim |
2nd-person plural | agið | agaðið |
3rd-person plural | agi | agaði |
imperative | present | |
2nd-person singular | aga | |
1st-person plural | ǫgum | |
2nd-person plural | agið |
infinitive | agask | |
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present participle | agandisk | |
past participle | agazk | |
indicative | present | past |
1st-person singular | ǫgumk | ǫguðumk |
2nd-person singular | agask | agaðisk |
3rd-person singular | agask | agaðisk |
1st-person plural | ǫgumsk | ǫguðumsk |
2nd-person plural | agizk | ǫguðuzk |
3rd-person plural | agask | ǫguðusk |
subjunctive | present | past |
1st-person singular | ǫgumk | ǫguðumk |
2nd-person singular | agisk | agaðisk |
3rd-person singular | agisk | agaðisk |
1st-person plural | agimsk | agaðimsk |
2nd-person plural | agizk | agaðizk |
3rd-person plural | agisk | agaðisk |
imperative | present | |
2nd-person singular | agask | |
1st-person plural | ǫgumsk | |
2nd-person plural | agizk |
Related terms edit
References edit
- “aga”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈa.ɡa/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɡa/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aɡa
- Syllabification: a‧ga
- Homophone: Aga
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
aga m pers
Declension edit
Etymology 2 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
aga f
- cane toad
- Synonyms: kururu, ropucha olbrzymia
Declension edit
References edit
Further reading edit
- aga in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian edit
Noun edit
aga f (plural agale)
- Alternative form of agă
Declension edit
Rukai edit
Noun edit
aga
Scots edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aga (plural agas)
- (Shetland) A variety of eight-armed cuttlefish
References edit
- “aga, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آغا (ağa) (Turkish ağa, aga).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
àga m (Cyrillic spelling а̀га)
Declension edit
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aga m (plural agas)
- Alternative form of agá
Further reading edit
- “aga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swahili edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Verb edit
-aga (infinitive kuaga)
Conjugation edit
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Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. |
Derived terms edit
Swedish edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
aga c
- (uncountable) corporal punishment (especially of children), beating
Declension edit
Declension of aga | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | aga | agan | agor | agorna |
Genitive | agas | agans | agors | agornas |
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Swedish agha.
Verb edit
aga (present agar, preterite agade, supine agat, imperative aga)
- to beat, to punish corporally, to discipline
Conjugation edit
Active | Passive | |||
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Infinitive | aga | agas | ||
Supine | agat | agats | ||
Imperative | aga | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | agen | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | agar | agade | agas | agades |
Ind. plural1 | aga | agade | agas | agades |
Subjunctive2 | age | agade | ages | agades |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | agande | |||
Past participle | agad | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
Etymology 3 edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آغا (ağa).
Noun edit
aga c
- an agha (Turkish title)
Declension edit
Declension of aga | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | aga | agan | agor | agorna |
Genitive | agas | agans | agors | agornas |
References edit
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Philippine *ága (“early; punctual”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈʔaɡa/, [ˈʔa.ɣɐ]
- Rhymes: -aɡa
- Syllabification: a‧ga
Noun edit
aga (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜄ)
Derived terms edit
Tswana edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Bantu *-jáka, a variant of Proto-Bantu *-jíbaka.
Verb edit
aga
- to build
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish آغا (aghā).
Noun edit
aga (definite accusative agayı, plural agalar)
References edit
- “aga”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
Yoruba edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
agà
- Tree hyrax; (in particular) the Dendrohyrax interfluvialis
- Synonym: ọ̀fàfà
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
agà
Derived terms edit
- bàlágà (“to reach the age of puberty”)
Etymology 3 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
agà
- the tree Musanga cecropioides; also known as the African corkwood tree
Etymology 4 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
àga
Derived terms edit
- alága (“chairperson”)