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 ගණනීය, අ ගණ්‍ය, a. innumerable, numberless, incalculable, ගණන්නැති, ගණන්කළ නො හැකිවූ.

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

අ ලංඝනීය, අ ලංඝ්‍ය, a. not to be transgressed, inviolable, කඩකළ අයුතුවූ or නොහැකිවූ; insurmountable, E. S.

අ ලංඝනීයතාව, අ ලංඝ්‍යතාව, n. inviolability &c., කඩකළ නොහැකිකම, &c.

අ සාමග්‍රී, a. implacable, irreconcilable. E. S

අංකය, n. mark, label, සලකුණ; figure, number, numeral, ඉලක්කම; the body or side, ඇඟ, ඇඟපත.

අංකිත, a. marked, labelled, සලකුණුකරපු; numbered, ගණන දමාපු.

අන්තඃ කර්‍ණය, n. the internal ear, labyrinth of the ear, ඇතුල්කන.

අශන, Terminalia glabra.

අෂ්ඨිය, n. metre of sixteen syllables to the line; also for අස්ථිය, which see.

අසන, Terminalia glabra.

ඇගෑව, n. candelabrum; festoon work for lamps, lamp-canopy or arch.

ඉන්ද්‍ර වංශා, n. a poetical line of twelve syllables.

ඉන්ද්‍ර වජ්‍රා, n. a poetical line of eleven syllables.