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 ්.

අට රස, n. pl. the eight parts of speech; the eight sentiments exhibited in dancing, viz. love, tenderness, mirth, heroism, wrath, disgust, wonder, terror.

අට්ටු බඳිනවා, (බැඳෙනවා), v. i. to contract dirt, become smirched or soiled.

අදස, n. E. of ආදර්‍ශය: mirror, කැඩපත; pl. අදස්.

අදෙස්, n. E. of ආදේශය: gram. substitution; advice, දැනමුතුකම; mirror, කැඩපත.

අබ්භූත ධම්ම, n. (අප් or අබ් priv., භූත existing, ධම්ම P. of ධර්‍ම), non-existent law or event, unprecedented occurrence, wonder, miracle, අද්භූතය, විස්මයක; B. a work on the miraculous powers of the disciples of Buddha.

අර්‍ණමය, n. extreme minuteness or fineness, miraculous attenuation or sublimation of the body, ඉතා සායුම් ගතිය.

අල්මාරිය, අල්මරිය, n. Port., almirah, wardrobe.

ආ දර්‍ශය, n. mirror, කැඩපත; commentary, අටු වාව; model, example, illustration, ආදෘශය.

ආත්ම දර්‍ශය, n. mirror, කැඩපත.

ආදාසතලය, ආදාසය, n. mirror, කැඩපත;

ආශ්චර්‍ය්‍ය, n. pl. or a. miracles; wonderful, miraculous.

ආශ්චර්‍ය්‍යමත්, a. wonderful, miraculous, super natural.

ආශ්චර්‍ය්‍යය, n. a marvel, miracle, හාස්කම.

ඇසිරිය, n. marvel, wonder, miracle, හාස්කම.