aga

1. 1.

   title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey)

   SynonymsAgha

   Broadertitle

   Turkey

Other forms of aga

plural

agas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about aga

What does aga mean?

aga means "title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey)".

How many syllables are in aga?

aga has 2 syllables: a-ga. The stress falls on "a". In IPA it is /ˈɑɡə/.

What is another word for aga?

Close synonyms include Agha. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aga a common word?

aga is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.