අක්ෂය, n. a die used in gambling; wheel, චක්‍රය; organ of sense, ඉන්ද්‍රියය; seed or nut called මාෂ (see අක්ෂමාලාව); a weight of sixteen මාෂ seeds; law, නීතිය; law-suit, නඩුව.

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

ඖ, n. The sixteenth letter of the alphabet. Its sound is that of ou in Thou or ow in Now. Its non-initial form is (‍‍‍‍‍ෙ‍—ෟ), as නෞ, now.

කල, n. time, period, ප්‍රස්තාව; digit or one sixteenth of the moons's diameter; a portion of time about eight seconds.

කලාව, n. digit or one sixteenth of the lunar diameter; one of the minor arts, as singing or playing on an instrument; a division or portion of time, කාලභේදය; supposed influence of the moon on the human body.

චන්‍ද්‍රි·කාලාව, n. a digit or one sixteenth part of the moon.

දහ·ස, දහ·සය, a. sixteen.

දහ·සය, n. sixteen.

දහ·සවෙනි, a. sixteenth.

පත්·කට්ටුව, n. (කට්ටුව bundle), set of eight or sixteen ola leaves marked alphabetically from ක, කා &c. through all the vowels and ending with ක. and ක.

බ්‍රහ්ම·ලෝකය, n. the Brahma world; that part of the universe said to be the residence of Previous page Next page Back to the Search Page   |   Back to the DDSA Page Charles Carter: A Sinhalese-English dictionary. Previous page -- 458 -- Brahma and the highest region‍ or state next Nirvāna; it is divided into sixteen parts or Brahma worlds, of which the highest six are called Suddhāvāsa, as the residence of the purified; in the last of these Nirvāna is attained.

ෂෝඩශ, a. sixteen, දහසය, සොළොස්.

සොළස,සොළොස, n. (Sans. ෂොඩශ), sixteen, දහසය.

සොළොස්, a. sixteen, දහසය.

සොළොස්·ප්‍රමාණ, a. sixteen mo, sexto decimo.