Aga

  

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Aga

Definition: Aga

Aga

Noun

1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Aga" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Aga

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField

AGA

EnglishAgropinic acidN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Specialty Definition: AGA AB

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

AGA, previously AB Gas-accumulator and AB Svenska Gasaccumulator, was a Swedish company. Nobel Prize laureate Gustaf Dalén's was instrumental in the success of the company. In 2000, AGA was integrated into Linde AG.

See also: AGA cooker

External links

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "AGA AB."

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Synonym: Aga

Synonym: Agha (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Aga

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Master

The authorities, the powers that be, the government; staff, etat major, aga, official, man in office, person in authority; sircar, sirkar, Sublime Porte.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Aga

Specialty definitions using "Aga": Kingly Titles. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Aga" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Estonian (but), Sepedi (to build), Swedish (aga, beat, canine, castigate, castigation, chastise, chastisement, flog, flogging, physical punishment, punish), Turkmen (older brother), Vietnamese (agar-agar).

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Modern Usage: Aga

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Aga dusen kadin (1967)

A Koppányi Aga testamentuma (1967)

Lebleci Horhor Aga (1934)

Zügürt Aga (1985)

Küçük aga (1983)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Aga

DomainTitle

References

  • AGA AB: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • AGA Foodservice Group PLC: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Aga Cooking (reference)

  • Aga Gas Handbook (reference)

  • Aga Khan III: Selected Speeches and Writings (reference)

  • Architecture in continuity : building in the Islamic world today : the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (reference)

  • Improving Schools Through Teacher Development: Case Studies of the Aga Khan Foundation Projects in East Africa (Contexts of Learning, 11) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Aga

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Mintz, ED, Mishu B, Guris D, Griffin PM. Prevalence of brainerd type chronic diarrhea among patients of AGA and ACG members (abstract). (references)

Business

Esaote Ansaldo of Italy and Aga Corp. of France are also present in the market. (references)

AGA AB is a major industrial and medical gas producer with approximately 10,896 employees. (references)

Some of the most important domestic firms include Aga Gas AB (oxygen therapy), Arjo Hospital Equipment (rehabilitation equipment), Boden Rehab (wheelchairs), Cema Medical (rehabilitation), ETAC (wheelchairs, walking frames), Swereco Rehab (rehabilitation). (references)

Civil Liberties

Afghanistan

Ismailis are Shi'a, but consider the Aga Khan their spiritual leader. (references)

Economic History

Albania

AGA now also plans to offer export assistance to Albanian firms. (references)

Kenya

Nairobi Hospital and Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi provide some of the most modern medical services in the country, but their resources are over-stretched. (references)

Trade

Kenya

IPS is a venture capital company owned by the Aga Khan, IFC Washington, Kenya Commercial Bank, and a merchant bank in the U.K. IPS offers equity investments up to 40 percent of share capital, provides loans and management assistance. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Aga

"Aga" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 89.29% of the time. "Aga" is used about 56 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)89.29%5048,117
Unclassified Items10.71%6143,867
                    Total100.00%56N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Aga

CountryNameCountryName
Sweden

AGA AB

United Kingdom

AGA Foodservice Group PLC

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: Aga

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Aga": aga-saga, aga-sagas, aga-type.

Ending with "Aga": stretched-aga.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Aga

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

aga

357

khan aga

170

aga muhlach

75

aga stove

45

aga gas

40

aga mulach

35

aga khan foundation

23

aga cooker

22

aga khan university

20

aga range

19

aga vogue

15

aga khan prince sadruddin

14

aga cookers

13

aga hotels.com london

12

aga kahn

11

aga oven

9

aga gas inc

8

aga hair loss

8

aga food service

7

aga karim khan

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Aga

Language Translations for "Aga"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Swedish

  

aga (beat, canine, castigate, castigation, chastise, chastisement, flog, flogging, physical punishment, punish). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Aga

Derivations

Words beginning with "Aga": again, against, agalloch, agallochs, agalwood, agalwoods, agama, agamas, agamete, agametes, agamic, agammaglobulinemia, agammaglobulinemias, agammaglobulinemic, agamospermies, agamospermy, agamous, agapae, agapai, agapanthus, agapanthuses, agape, agapeic, agar, agaric, agarics, agarose, agaroses, agars, agas, agate, agates, agatize, agatized, agatizes, agatizing, agatoid, agave, agaves, agaze. (additional references)

Words ending with "Aga": bisnaga, biznaga, gaga, raga, rutabaga, saga. (additional references)

Words containing "Aga": assagai, assagaied, assagaiing, assagais, astragal, astragals, bagass, bagasse, bagasses, bagatelle, bagatelles, bisnagas, biznagas, caragana, caraganas, counterpropaganda, counterpropagandas, divagate, divagated, divagates, divagating, divagation, divagations, extragalactic, extravagance, extravagances, extravagancies, extravagancy, extravagant, extravagantly, extravaganza, extravaganzas, extravagate, extravagated, extravagates, extravagating, gagaku, gagakus, hagadic, hagadist, hagadists, hiragana, hiraganas, indagate, indagated, indagates, indagating, indagation, indagations, indagator, indagators, intragalactic, irrefragabilities, irrefragability, irrefragable, irrefragably, lagan, lagans, magazine, magazines, magazinist, magazinists, megagamete, megagametes, megagametophyte, megagametophytes, metagalactic, metagalaxies, metagalaxy, nagana, naganas, newsmagazine, newsmagazines, nonpagan, nonpagans, overextravagant, pagan, pagandom, pagandoms, paganise, paganised, paganises, paganish, paganising, paganism, paganisms, paganist, paganists, paganize, paganized, paganizer, paganizers, paganizes, paganizing, pagans, plagal, propagable, propaganda, propagandas, propagandist, propagandistic, propagandistically, propagandists, propagandize, propagandized, propagandizer, propagandizers, propagandizes, propagandizing, propagate, propagated, propagates, propagating, propagation, propagations, propagative, propagator, propagators, ragamuffin, ragamuffins, ragas, runagate, runagates, rutabagas, sagacious, sagaciously, sagaciousness, sagaciousnesses, sagacities, sagacity, sagaman, sagamen, sagamore, sagamores, saganash, saganashes, sagas, suffragan, suffragans, tagalong, tagalongs, termagant, termagants, tragacanth, tragacanths, vagabond, vagabondage, vagabondages, vagabonded, vagabonding, vagabondish, vagabondism, vagabondisms, vagabonds, vagal, vagally, vagaries, vagarious, vagariously, vagary, vasovagal, warragal, warragals, yatagan, yatagans. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Aga"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "Aga" (pronounced Ä"gu)
3Ä" g usaga.
2-g uAmiga, beluga, conga, malanga, Omega, sevruga, toga, virga, yoga.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Aga

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-g"

-1 letter: aa, ag.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-g"
 

+1 letter: agar, agas, agha, agma, alga, anga, gaga, gala, gama, raga, saga.

 

+2 letters: aargh, adage, again, agama, agape, agars, agate, agave, agaze, aghas, agmas, agora, agria, ajuga, alang, algae, algal, algas, amiga, angas, argal, avgas, dagga, fanga, galah, galas, galax, galea, gamas, gamay, gamba, gamma, ganja, gayal, gazar, graal, grama, grana, guava, jagra, lagan, magma, pagan, panga, ragas, sagas, saiga, sanga, taiga, vagal.

 

+3 letters: aahing, aarrgh, adages, adagio, afghan, agamas, agamic, agapae, agapai, agaric, agates, agaves, agenda, aghast, aglare, agleam, agnail, agnate, agonal, agorae, agoras, agrafe, agrias, airbag, ajugas, alegar, ambage, amigas, analog, angary, angina, angora, anlage, argala, argali, argals, baaing, bagass, bagman, daggas, dagoba, damage, fanega, fangas, gagaku, gagman, galago, galahs, galaxy, galeae, galeas, galena, galyac, galyak, gamays, gambas, gambia, gammas, ganjah, ganjas, garage, gasbag, gasman, gateau, gavage, gavial, gayals, gazabo, gazars, gelada, goanna, graals, graham, gramas, grappa, guaiac, guanay, guavas, hangar, iguana, jagras, jaguar, laager, lagans, laguna, lavage, magian, magmas, manage, margay, nagana, organa, padnag, pagans, pagoda, pangas, parang, plagal, quagga, ragbag, raglan, ragman, ragtag, ratbag, ravage, saggar, saigas, sangar, sangas, satang, savage, seabag, stalag, tagrag, taigas, vagary, vagina, wangan.

 

+4 letters: aarrghh, abasing, abating, abigail, acreage, adagial, adagios, afghani, afghans, against, agamete, agamous, agapeic, agarics, agarose, agatize, agatoid, agendas, aggadic, aggrade, agitate, agitato, agnails, agnates, agnatic, agnosia, agrafes, agraffe, agrapha, agravic, airbags, alegars, algebra, amalgam, amazing, ambages, anagoge, anagogy, anagram, analgia, analogs, analogy, anergia, angakok, angaria, anginal, anginas, angioma, angoras, angular, anhinga, anlagen, anlages, antigay, antisag, apagoge, apanage, aphagia, apogamy, apogeal, apogean, argalas, argalis, arraign, arrange, arugola, arugula, assagai, assegai, assuage, asswage, ataghan, augural, average, avgases, awaking, bagasse, baggage, bandage, bargain, barrage, beanbag, bisnaga, biznaga, cabbage, carnage, cartage, catalog, coagula, dagobas, damaged, damager, damages, diagram, digamma, dogmata, drayage, fanegas, farrago, flagman, fleabag, gabbard, gabbart, gadwall, gagakus, gainsay, galabia, galagos, galatea, galaxes, galeate, galenas, gallant, gallate, galleta, galyacs, galyaks, gambade, gambado, gambias, gamelan, ganache, ganglia, gangway, ganjahs, garaged, garages, garbage, gardant, garland, gasbags, gastral, gastrea, gateaus, gateaux, gateman, gateway, gavages, gavials, gazabos, gazania, geladas, getaway, gharial, glacial, gnathal, goannas, gonadal, gradate, gradual, grahams, gramary, grammar, granary, grandad, grandam, grandma, grandpa, granita, granola, grappas, gravida, gravlax, graylag, guaiacs, guanaco, guanase, guanays, guarani, gummata, hagadic, haggada, haggard, handbag, hangars, hangman, hangtag, haulage, haylage, ignatia, iguanas, jaggary, jaguars, laagers, laggard, lagunas, lasagna, lasagne, lavages, leafage, leakage, logania, magenta, magians, magical, magmata, magnate, mahuang, mailbag, majagua, malanga, managed, manager, manages, mangaby, margays, massage, megabar, myalgia, naganas, nametag, organza, otalgia, package, padnags, pageant, paginal, pagodas, pangram, paragon, parangs, parerga, passage, patagia, pawnage, piragua, podagra, quaggas, quahaug, quayage, ragbags, raglans, ragtags, rampage, ratbags, ravaged, ravager, ravages, realgar, regalia, regatta, regmata, sagaman, sagamen, saggard, saggars, saguaro, salvage, sandbag, sangars, sangria, sapsago, satangs, sausage, savaged, savager, savages, scalage, seabags, siamang, smaragd, soakage, stalags, swagman, tagrags, tallage, tanager, tangram, tankage, tannage, tautaug, teargas, thanage, trangam, vagally, vaginae, vaginal, vaginas, vagrant, vantage, waftage, wagtail, wangans, wanigan, wantage, warpage, washrag, wastage, wattage, yardage, yatagan, zingara.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Aga


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 67 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    --.    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100111 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#103 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0067 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

357367

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Names: Company Usage
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Abbreviations
13. Acronyms
14. Derivations
15. Rhymes
16. Anagrams
17. Orthography
18. Bibliography


  

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