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 ච්ඡාදනයකරනවා, v. t. (අ priv.,ච් euphonic, ඡාදන covering), to cover, වසනවා, don, clothe, අඳිනවා.

අ චේල, ‍අ චේලක, a. (චේල raiment), without clothes, naked, නිර්‍වස්ත්‍ර.

අ දන්ත, a. edentate, toothless, දන්නැති.

අ පරාධීන, a. (අ priv.), not subject to another, independent, වසඟ නැති.

අ භ්‍රාත්‍රීය, a. unbrotherly, unfraternal. E. S.

අ ව්‍යාකෘත, a. unaltered, වෙනස්නූණ; untransformed, free (from both merit and demerit), මිදුණු

අංගී රස, අංගු රස, අඟුරස, n. (අංග body, රස ray), having rays issuing from the body: ap. of Buddha or other sage; the planet Jupiter, බෘහස්පති.

අංජන දේවී, අංජනාව, n. goddess of witchcraft, the mother of Hanuman the monkey chief or demon who aids magicians.

අංශුකය, n. garment, ඇඳුම, robe, උතුරුසළුව, fine cloth, සිහින් රෙද්ද.

අග්‍ර ජයා, n. mas. first-born, කුලුඳුලා; elder brother, අයියා; Brahmin, බමුණ.

අට වරණයා, n. other person, stranger, අන්‍යයා, අමුත්තා; enemy, සතුරා.

අතරණය, n. E. of ආස්තරණය: cloth to be spread, sheet, ඇතිරිල්ල.

අත්, n. pl. of අත fr. හස්ත: hands, arms. For other derivations and meanings, see අත.

අත් ගල, n. hand-stone, (a) for grinding curry-stuffs, (b) potter's smoothing stone.