*වි·නාශක, වි·නාශකර, වි·නාශදායක, a. (වි emp.), destroying, destructive, consuming, noxious, ruinous, causing or bringing destruction, නාස්තිකරන, නාස්තික.

අ, n. The first letter of the Alphabet. It varies bightly in pronunciation, depending sometimes on the meaning or derivation and sometimes on the consonants with which it is combined. It is (1) the clear, distinct sound obtained by shortening ආ ah; (2) the sound of a in negative or miracle. In initial syllables the sound is generally the first of these; the second arises from the dropping of the voice in the unaccented syllables. It is written only when it is the initial letter of a word, but is pronounced after every consonant to which no other vowel is attached, or where it is not suppressed by the sign ්, as කරනවා, karanavā, the final vowel අ, which is long, alone being written;කරන් karan, the vowel අ after න being suppressed by the sign ්.

අ කම්පාව, n. stability, ස්ථිරකම; Er. for අනු කම්පාව, compassion.

අ කල් පොලිය, n. interest in advance, discount.

අ ක්ෂම, a. not forbearing, impatient, නොඉව සිලි; hasty, ඉක්මන්; incompetent, අසමර්‍ථ.

අ ක්‍රාන්ත, a. not passed, not overcome, unsurpassed. E. S.

අ කාරාදි කාරයා, n. (අකාර ආදි), lexicographer.

අ කාරාදිය, n. lit. අ et cetera, viz. dictionary, lexicon.

අ කැප, a. not dedicated, unconsecrated, improper, කැපනැති.

අ කීකරුවෙනවා, v. i. to become disobedient, to disobey.

අ කෘත, a. not done, unaccomplished, නොකළ.

අ කෘතානුකූල, අකෘතානුකූල්‍ය, a. (අනුකූල), irresponsive, unaccommodating, not compliant.

අ කෞශල අ කෞශල්‍ය, a. unskilful, අසමර්‍ථ, awkward, clumsy, ungraceful, uncouth, දක්ෂ නැති.

අ ඛණ්ඩනය, n. non-violation, නොකැඩීම, entireness, completeness, සම්පූර්‍ණකම; time or continuance, කාලය or පැවතීම.

අ ඛණ්ඩිත a. unbroken, inviolate, කැඩී නැති, කඩකර නැති, entire, whole, සම්පූර්‍ණ, continuous, අනවරත.