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 ක්‍රම, අ ක්‍රමක, අ ක්‍රමික, a. irregular, anomalous, desultory, unmethodical, unsystematic, ක්‍රමනැති.

අ ක්‍රමතාව, n. irregularity, anomalousness, &c., ක්‍රමනැතිකම.

අ නියම්, a. indeterminate, contingent, indefinite, vague, anomalous, eccentric.

අ රූපාවචර, a. pert. to the immaterial planes or those four brahma worlds; or n. bodiless or immaterial plane or world, viz. where immaterial beings are or the mind alone exists.

අ ‍භේද්‍යපත්‍රික, a. bot. of undivided leaf, monophyllous, monosepalous, කොළ or පෙති බෙදී නැති, ඒකපත්‍රික, (මල් &c).

අංශු මාලා පරික්ෂිප්ත, අංශු මාලා මණ්ඩිත, a. encircled or adorned with light, haloed.

අංශු මාලාව, n. garland of light, halo, corona. E. S.

අක, Calotropis gigantea, වරා.

අගරු, අගුරු, n. agal wood, aloe wood, agallochum.

අගරු, අගුරු, aloe plant, Aloe vera, ගෝණිගහ.

අග්නි කාෂ්ඨ, n. firewood, දර, aloe wood, අගිල්.

අඟ රෑණ, n. horn-cord, head-rope to restrain buffaloes, etc.

අඟාරනවා, v. i. to waddle, toddle, shuffle along, ගාටනවා; pret. ඇඟෑරුවා; v. n. ඇඟෑරීම.

අඩි තබනවා. අඩි තබායනවා, v. to step, pace, step along.