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 කාම, a. without desires or lust, passionless, කෙලෙස් නැති, රාග නැති.

අ කාමතාව, n. passionlessness, freedom from all passions, කෙලෙස් නැතිකම.

අ චය, අ ව්තීය , a. lit. secondless, viz. the only, sole, unique, එකමවූ; non-dual; peerless, (E. S.): n. non-duality.

අ චල, a. motionless, quiescent, still, steady, stable, නිශ්චල, නොසෙල්වෙන.

අ චලකරනවා, v. t. to render motionless or stable; still, quieten, නිශ්චල කරනවා.

අ චලතාව, අ චලත්වය, n. motionlessness, equilibrium, immobility, fixedness, &c., (see adj.) ස්ථීරකම; imperturbation, නිශ්චලකම.

අ පුද්ගලික, a. impersonal, not pert. to one person only, common, පොදු.

අ රතිය, n. desirelessness, passionlessness, ‍ක්ලේශ නැතිකම.

අ සංඛත, a. without addition; ep. of Nirvāna, අ සංඛත ධාතුව, n. additionless, state viz. Nirvāna, නිවන.

අ සහාය, a. companionless, සහකාරයෙක් නැති; peerless, matchless, incomparable, (යමක්හා) සමානකමක් නැති E. S.

අඩ පණ, a. only half-living, half-dead.

අතු පාහිනවා, අතු බානවා, v. to lop or take off branches, leaving only the trunk.

අනන්‍ය, a. (අන් අන්‍ය no other), unexampled, unmatched, unique, only, sole, අවීතිය, එකමවූ.

අනභිරතිය, n. absence of desire or delight in, අශානැතිකම, ප්‍රසන්න නැතිකම; passionlessness, රාග or ෙකල්ශ නැනිකම.