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 තුල්‍ය ශබ්ද වාචක, a. gram. imparisyllabic. E. S.

අ ශිෂ්ටාචාරය, n. boorishness &c.; barbarism: see අශිෂ්‍ටතාව.

අගාර දාහය, n. burning of houses, incendiarism. E. S.

අටගන්නවා, v. i. to germinate, spring up; be produced, arise; pret. අටගත්තා; v. n. අට ගැනීම.

අර්‍ථ කථාචාර්‍ය්‍යයා, n. (කථා ආචා:), annotator, expositor, commentator, glossarist, scholiast, විස්තරකාරයා.

අලු පොඩයා, n. ashen-skinned person, (the colour arising from disease).

අශ්ව ප්‍රච්ජාදනය, n. horse-cover, caparison, ලක්ෂණ අස්පලස.

අශිෂ්ටතාව, n. boorishness, clownishness &c., ශිෂ්ටාචාරනැතිකම; barbarism, වනචරකම.

ආ කෘති ජ, a. arising from the form, structural. E. S.

ආකාශ ජ, a. produced in or arising from the sky or air, ආකාශයෙන් අටගන්න or අටගත්.

ඇත්මද, Alstonia sholaris.

ඉපදීම, ඉපදිල්ල, ඉපදීම, ඉපදුම, v. n. of උපදිනවා and ඉපදෙනවා: birth; arising, originating, origination.

ඉපදෙනවා, v. i. to be born; arise, spring up, originate; pret. ඉපදුණා; v. n. ඉපදීම.

ඉපැදැ, p. pl. of ඉපදෙනවා: born, arisen, ඉපද.