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 ප්‍රති සන්ධික, a. (අ priv., ප්‍රති again, සන්ධික uniting), free from further transmigration, සසරින් මිදුණ.

අධෝ කුක්ෂි දාහය, n. peritonitis, inflammation of the peritoneum, යටිබඩේ දැවිල්ල.

අනුශාසනය, අනු ශාසනාව, n. exhortation, admonition, counsel, අවවාදය, දැනමුතුකම, sermon දේසනාව.

අපත්‍ය ප්‍රේමේන්ද්‍රියය, n. (ප්‍රේම ඉන්ද්‍රියය), phren. philoprogenitiveness.

අපේ, pron. genitive of අපි, our.

අභි ඥාත, a. ascertained, known, දැන‍‍‍ගනතිබෙව, දන්නාලද, අභිඥානය, අභිඥාව n profound or sp. or extraordinary knowledge, cognition, recognition, විශේෂ දැනගැන්ම or දැනීම; five supernatural acquirements of Rahats, viz. power to assume any form, to hear the feeblest sounds and see objects at any distance, to know the disposition and thoughts of others, to know the condition of any person in former existences.

අව වාදය, n. counsel, admonition; rebuke, reproof.

ආ, n. The second vowel of the alphabet, sounded like a in 'calm' or 'charm' its non-initial form is (ා) following the consonant it vocalizes, as කා Kā.

ආ රම්භ සිතියම, n. initial picture, frontispiece.

ආ රම්භ,ආ රම්භක, a. initial, initiative, introductory, පටන්ගැන්මට අයිතිවූ, මුල්වූ.

ආ රම්භාකෘති, a. initial, elementary, rudimentary, මුල්වූ, මුල් ධාතුවූ.

ආ රම්භාකෘතිය, n. (ආකෘතිය), initial form, rudiment, ධාතුව.

ආරබ්ධ, a. begun, commenced, initial, පටන් ගන්නාලද.

ඇ, n. The third vowel of the alphabet, though in some grammars and vocabularies this and the next are placed last of all. Its sound is a modification of අ, and like the sound of a in fat, bat, mat. Its non-initial form is (ැ) following the consonant it vocalizes, as කැබ්, cab.