Aga or AGA may refer to:
Business
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Architectural Glass and Aluminum (AGA), a glazing contractor, established in 1970
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AGA (automobile)
The Aktiengesellschaft für Automobilbau (= corporation for automotive engineering, abbreviation A.G.A. or AGA) was a German producer of cars in the 1920s in the German capital of Berlin.
The company was founded as ''Autogen-Gas-Akkumulator-AG ...
, ''Autogen Gasaccumulator AG'', 1920s German car company
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AGA AB
AGA AB, previously ''AB Gasaccumulator'' and ''AB Svenska Gasaccumulator'', was a Swedish industrial gas company founded in 1904. Nobel Prize laureate Gustaf Dalén was instrumental in the success of the company. Important inventions included t ...
, ''Aktiebolaget Svenska Gasaccumulator'', a Swedish company, the originator of the AGA Cooker
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Aga Rangemaster Group, British manufacturer
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AGA cooker
The AGA cooker oven is a Swedish oven and cooker. Invented and initially produced in Sweden, since 1957 all production has been located in the UK.
History
Originally developed to burn coal or anthracite, the Aga cooker was invented in 1922 by ...
, an oven and cooker
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Abellio Greater Anglia
Greater Anglia (legal name Abellio East Anglia Limited) is a train operating company in Great Britain owned as a joint venture by Abellio (transport company), Abellio, the international arm of the state-owned Dutch national rail operator Neder ...
, former name of Greater Anglia, a train company in the United Kingdom
People
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Aga Khan (disambiguation)
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''Ağa'' (Ottoman Empire), an Ottoman Turkish military and administrative rank
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Alejandro G. Abadilla
Alejandro G. Abadilla (March 10, 1906 – August 26, 1969), commonly known as AGA, was a Filipino poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Critic Pedro Ricarte referred to Abadilla as the father of modern Philippine poetry, and was known for challeng ...
(1906–1969), Filipino poet
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Aga Radwańska
Aga or AGA may refer to:
Business
* Architectural Glass and Aluminum (AGA), a glazing contractor, established in 1970
* AGA (automobile), ''Autogen Gasaccumulator AG'', 1920s German car company
*AGA AB, ''Aktiebolaget Svenska Gasaccumulator'', a ...
, Polish tennis player
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AGA (singer)
Agatha Kong Hoi-ka (; born 21 January 1988), better known by her stage name AGA, is a Hong Kong singer-songwriter. She debuted under Universal Music Hong Kong in 2013 with the song "Hello".
Life and career
AGA was born in Hong Kong on 21 Jan ...
, Hong Kong singer
Given name
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Aga of Kish
Aga ( Sumerian:) commonly known as Aga of Kish, was the twenty-third and last king in the first dynasty of Kish during the Early Dynastic I period. He is listed in the ''Sumerian King List'' and many sources as the son of Enmebaragesi. The Kishi ...
, Ensi of Kish and King of Sumer
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Ağa Aşurov (1880–1936), Azerbaijani statesman
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(born 1969), Filipino actor and producer
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Aga Zaryan
Aga Zaryan (born Agnieszka Skrzypek on 17 January 1976) is a Polish jazz vocalist and the first Polish musician to sign with Blue Note Records.
Her albums have earned gold, platinum, and multi-platinum status. In 2008 and 2012 she was honored w ...
(born 1976), Polish vocalist
*Aga, a diminutive of the Russian female first name
Agafa
Agafa (russian: Ага́фа) is an old and uncommon Russian female first name.Petrovsky, p. 38 It is derived from the Greek word ''agathē'', meaning ''kind'', ''good''. It can also be a variant of the name Agafiya.Superanskaya, pp. 23 ...
*Aga, a diminutive of the Russian male first name
Agafangel
*Aga, a diminutive of the Russian male first name
Agafodor
*Aga, a diminutive of the Russian male first name
Agafon Agafon (russian: Агафо́н) is a Russian Christian male given name, first name.Superanskaya p. 24 The name is derived from the Greek language, Greek word ''agathon'', meaning ''kindness'', ''goodness''. Variants of this name used by t ...
*Aga, a diminutive of the Russian male first name
Agafonik
Agafonik (russian: Агафо́ник) is an old and uncommonPetrovsky, p. 38 Russian Christian male first name.Superanskaya, p. 24 Its feminine version is Agafonika. The name is derived from the Greek name Agathonikos, which in turn ...
*Aga, a diminutive of the Russian female first name
Agafonika Agafonika (russian: Агафо́ника) is an old and uncommonPetrovsky, p. 38 Russian Christian female first name.Superanskaya, p. 251 Its masculine version is Agafonik.
The diminutive
A diminutive is a root word that has been modi ...
*Aga, a diminutive of the Russian male first name
Agap
Agap (russian: Ага́п) is a Russian male first name.Superanskaya, p. 23 The name is derived from the Greek name Agapios, which in turn derives from the verb , meaning "to love". The name's old form,Petrovsky, p. 37 as well as the fo ...
*Aga, a diminutive of the Russian female first name
Agapa Agapa (russian: Ага́па) is an Old Church SlavonicSuperanskaya p. 278 and rare Russian female first name.Petrovsky, p. 37 It is derived from the Greek word ''agapē'', meaning ''love''.
The diminutives of "Agapa" are Aga () and Ga ...
*Aga, a diminutive of the Russian male first name
Agapit Agapit (russian: Агапи́т) is an old and uncommonPetrovsky, p. 37 Russian Christian male first name.Superanskaya, p. 24 The name is derived from the Greek word ''agapētos'', meaning ''loved one''.
Its colloquial variant is Agap (; ...
*Aga, a diminutive of the Russian female first name
Agapiya
Agapiya (russian: Ага́пия, from grc, Ἀγάπη) is an old and uncommonPetrovsky, p. 37 Russian Christian female given name, first name.Superanskaya p. 250 Its masculine version is Agapy. Its colloquial form is Ogapiya ().S ...
*Aga, a diminutive of the Russian female first name Agata (
a variant of Agatha)
*Aga, a diminutive of the Russian male first name
Agav
*Aga, a diminutive of the Russian male first name
Agavva Agavva (russian: Ага́вва) is an old and rarePetrovsky, p. 37 Russian Christian male first name.Superanskaya, p. 23 It is supposedly derived from the Biblical Hebrew word ''hāgāb'', meaning ''locust''.
Its diminutives are Aga (), ...
*Aga, a diminutive of the Russian female first name
Avgusta Avgusta (russian: А́вгуста or ) is a Russian Christian first name,Superanskaya, p. 250 the female form of the male first name Avgust.Petrovsky, p. 32 It is derived from the Latin word ''Augusta'', meaning ''sacred'', and was use ...
Surname
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Ağa
Ağa is a Turkish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Mustapha Aga, Ottoman Empire ambassador to the Swedish Court
*Osman Aga of Temesvar, Ottoman army officer
* Sedefkar Mehmed Agha, Ottoman architect of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque
*Su ...
, a Turkish surname
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Alemu Aga (born 1950), Ethiopian musician
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Anu Aga
Anu Aga (born 3 August 1942) is an Indian billionaire businesswoman and social worker who led Thermax, an energy and environment engineering business, as its chairperson from 1996 to 2004. She was among the eight richest Indian women, and in 200 ...
(born 1942), Indian businesswoman
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Maria-Laura Aga
Maria-Laura Aga (born 23 June 1994) is a Belgian football striker, currently playing for RSC Anderlecht in the Belgian First Division. As an Under-19 international she was Belgium's top scorer in the 2011 U-19 European Championship with 2 goa ...
(born 1994), Belgian footballer
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Patrick Aga
Patrick Aga was elected Senator for the Nasarawa North constituency of Nasarawa State, Nigeria at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic, running on the People's Democratic Party (Nigeria), People's Democratic Party (PDP) platform. He took o ...
, Nigerian politician
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Ragheb Aga
Ragheb Gul Aga (born 10 July 1984) is a Kenyan cricketer, who played as an all-rounder for Kenya in ODIs and T20Is and for Sussex in English domestic cricket. He became Kenya's third captain in two months in November 2004 when he captained the ...
(born 1984), Kenyan cricketer
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Selim Aga
Selim Aga (c. 1826 – December 1875) was a Sudanese man who was abducted by Arab slave traders when he was eight years of age, was brought to Scotland in 1836, and raised and educated as a free man. Selim wrote an autobiography of his life as a s ...
(–1875), Sudanese writer
Groups
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American Gaming Association
The American Gaming Association (AGA) is a Gambling in the United States, United States gambling industry association. It was founded in 1994 with the goal of promoting, educating and lobbying on behalf of the gambling industry through education a ...
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American Gas Association
The American Gas Association (AGA) is an American trade organization founded in 1918 representing and advocating on behalf of local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
History
The American Gas Association forme ...
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American Gastroenterological Association
The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) is a medical association of gastroenterologists. Approximately 16,000 scientists and physicians are members of the organization.
Overview
The American Gastroenterological Association is a prof ...
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American Go Association
The American Go Association (AGA) was founded in 1935, to promote the board game of Go (game), Go in the United States.
Founded by chess master Edward Lasker and some friends at Chumley's restaurant in New York City, the AGA is one of the oldest ...
, organization to promote the board game of Go
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American Grandprix Association
The American Grandprix Association (AGA) is a national association that promotes Olympic-level show jumping in the United States.
The AGA was established in 1978 by Eugene R. Mische. Leonard King was the AGA's president from 1978 through 1999.
A ...
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Assemblies of God in Australia
The Australian Christian Churches (ACC), formerly Assemblies of God in Australia, is a network of Pentecostal churches in Australia affiliated with the World Assemblies of God Fellowship, which is the largest Pentecostal denomination in the ...
, a Pentecostal denomination
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Association of Government Accountants, government accounting professional organization that issues the Certified Government Financial Manager
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Australian Go Association
The Australian Go Association (AGA) is the national governing body for the ancient oriental sport of go in the country of Australia. It was founded in 1978 by Clive Davies of the Sydney Go Club, Neville Smythe of the Canberra Go Club, and Bill L ...
, governing body for the board game Go
Medicine
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Androgenetic alopecia
In botany, apomixis is asexual reproduction without fertilization. Its etymology is Greek for "away from" + "mixing". This definition notably does not mention meiosis. Thus "normal asexual reproduction" of plants, such as propagation from cutt ...
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Anti-gliadin antibodies
Anti-gliadin antibodies are produced in response to gliadin, a prolamin found in wheat. In bread wheat it is encoded by three different alleles, AA, BB, and DD. These alleles can produce slightly different gliadins, which can cause the body to pro ...
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Aspartylglucosaminidase
N(4)-(beta-N-acetylglucosaminyl)-L-asparaginase is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ''AGA'' gene.
Aspartylglucosaminidase is an amidohydrolase enzyme involved in the catabolism of N-linked oligosaccharides of glycoproteins. It cleaves a ...
*Appropriate for gestational age, referring to
prenatal growth rate
Prenatal development () includes the embryonic development, development of the embryo and of the fetus during a viviparity, viviparous animal's gestation. Prenatal development starts with fertilization, in the germinal stage of embryonic developm ...
Places
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Aga, Egypt
Aga ( ar, أجا) is a town in Egypt, located in the governorate of Dakahlia
Dakahlia Governorate ( ar, محافظة الدقهلية ', ) is an Egyptian governorate lying northeast of Cairo. Its area is approximately 3,500 km2. Although t ...
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Aga, Niigata
is a town located in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 10,386 in 4490 households, and a population density of 11 persons per km2. The total area of the town is .
Geography
Aga is located in northeastern Niiga ...
, Japan
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Aga Point
Guam is a Territories of the United States, U.S. territory in the western Pacific Ocean, at the boundary of the Philippine Sea. It is the southernmost and largest member of the Mariana Islands archipelago, which is itself the northernmost group of ...
, Guam
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Al Massira Airport
AL, Al, Ål or al may stand for:
Arts and entertainment Fictional characters
* Al (''Aladdin'') or Aladdin, the main character in Disney's ''Aladdin'' media
* Al (''EastEnders''), a minor character in the British soap opera
* Al (''Fullmetal ...
, Agadir, Morocco
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Brestovăț
Brestovăț ( hu, Aga, until 1892 ''Bresztovác''; german: Brestowatz; sk, Brestovec) is a commune in Timiș County. It is composed of five villages: Brestovăț, Coșarii (until 1960 Chizdia; hu, Kisgye), Hodoș ( hu, Temeshódos; german: Hodosc ...
, Timiș County, Romania, called in Hungarian
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Monte Aga
Monte Aga is a mountain of Lombardy, Italy. It is located within the Bergamo Alps
The Bergamasque Alps or Bergamo Alps (Italian: ''Alpi Orobie'', sometimes translated into English as Orobic Alps) are a mountain range in the Italian Alps. The ...
, mountain in Italy
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Aga (river)
The Aga (russian: Ага; bua, Ага гол, ''Aga gol'') is a river in Zabaykalsky Krai in Russia. It flows into the Onon
Onon may refer to:
* Onon (river), river in Mongolia and Russia
* Onon, Khentii Onon (, altitude 1,031 m, time zone ...
, a tributary of the Onon in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia
Other
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''Aga'' (bird), Chamorro language name of ''Corvus kubaryi'', the Mariana crow
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''Aga'' (bug), a genus of assassin bugs in the tribe Harpactorini
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''Ága'' (film), a 2018 Bulgarian film
* ''Aga'' is the word for
Karuka
The karuka (''Pandanus julianettii'', also called karuka nut and ''Pandanus'' nut) is a species of tree in the family Pandanaceae and an important regional food crop in New Guinea. The nuts are more nutritious than coconuts, and are so popular ...
in the Kewa language
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Aga saga
The Aga saga is a subgenre of the family saga genre of literature. The genre is named for the AGA cooker, a type of stored-heat oven that came to be popular in medium to large English country houses, country houses in United Kingdom, the UK after i ...
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Aguano language
Aguano is a possibly extinct language of Peru. Loukotka (1968) classified it as Chamicuro, but Chamicuro speakers say that the Aguano language was not the same as theirs, but rather that the Aguano people spoke Quechua
Quechua may refer to:
...
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Alcohol and Gaming Authority
The Alcohol and Gaming Authority (AGA, previously known as the Nova Scotia Gaming Control Commission) is an agency of the government of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia that regulates gambling and alcoholic beverages in the province.
Upon it ...
, government body in Nova Scotia, Canada
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Alte Gesamt-Ausgabe
Franz Schubert's Works: Complete and Authoritative Edition (german: Franz Schubert's Werke: Kritisch durchgesehene Gesammtausgabe), also known as the Collected Edition, is a late 19th-century publication of Franz Schubert's compositions.Deutsch 19 ...
, 19th century publication of compositions by Franz Schubert
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Amiga Advanced Graphics Architecture
Amiga Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA) is the third-generation Amiga graphic chipset, first used in the Amiga 4000 in 1992. Before release AGA was codenamed Pandora by Commodore International.
AGA was originally called AA for Advanced Archit ...
, a Commodore Amiga graphics chipset
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Art Gallery of Alberta
The Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) is an art museum in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The museum occupies a building at Churchill Square in downtown Edmonton. The museum building was originally designed by Donald G. Bittorf, and B. James Wensley, alth ...
, an art museum in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
* AGA, a codon for the amino acid
arginine
Arginine is the amino acid with the formula (H2N)(HN)CN(H)(CH2)3CH(NH2)CO2H. The molecule features a guanidino group appended to a standard amino acid framework. At physiological pH, the carboxylic acid is deprotonated (−CO2−) and both the am ...
See also
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Agga (disambiguation)
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Aegea Aegea is a back-formation from " Aegean", the sea that was named after an eponymous Aegeus in early levels of Greek mythology. The ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (1911) mentioned an Aegea, queen of the Amazons, as an alternative eponym of the Aegean ...
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Agha (disambiguation)
Agha may refer to:
* Agha (actor) (1914–1992), Indian film actor and producer
* Jalal Agha (1945–1995), son of the actor Agha, Indian actor and director in Bollywood films
* Agha (title), a civilian and military title in the Middle East
* Agh ...
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