අභි නීහාරය, n. (අභි emp., නි to, හාරය bringing), aspiration, desire, prayer, ප්‍රාර්‍ථනාව.

අල්ප ප්‍රාණ, අල්ප ප්‍රාණාක්ෂර, a. gram. of light breathing, unaspirated.

අල්ප ප්‍රාණාක්ෂරය, n. gram. unaspirated letter as ක, not ඛ.

අෂ්ට ධර්‍මය, n. the law of eight, viz. the eight essentials for becoming a Buddha: 1 manhood, 2 the male sex, 3 merit, 4 to have seen a Buddha, 5 ascetic condition, monkhood, 6 virtuousness, 7 aspiration to Buddhahood, 8 a strenuous heart for it.

එ, n. The second letter of the labials, the aspirate of the preceding letter, expressed by ph and pronounced like p in uphill, allowing the h to coalesce with the p.

ඛ, n. The second consonant of the alphabet; it is the preceding letter aspirated, expressed in English letters by kh and pronounced like k in black-hall allowing the h to coalesce.

ඝ, n. The fourth consonant of the alphabet. It is the preceding letter aspirated, expressed in English letters by Gh, and pronounced like g in drag-house, allowing the h to coalesce.

ඡ, n. The seventh ronaonant of the alphabet. It is the preceding letter aspirated, expressed by chha and pronounced like ch in fetch-ham, allowing the h in ham to coalesce with the preceding ch.

ඨ, n. The twelfth consonant of the alphabet and aspirate of the preceding.

ධ, n. The fourth letter of the dentals and aspirate of the preceding letter, represented by dh.

ධනිත, a. aspirated, මහාප්‍රාණ.

ප්‍රාණ, n. pl. or a. (see ප්‍රාණය), lives &c.; life-, vital, soul-; gram. vowel.; pert. to aspiration.

ප්‍රාර්‍ථනාව, n. hope, aspiration, wish, prayer, පැතීම.

පැතුම, පැත්ම, n. wish, aspiration, hope.

බෝධි·සත්‍වයෝ, n. hon. aspirant to Buddhaship: it generally refers to Gautama in his pre-Buddha existence, embryo Buddha.