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 ඛණ්ඩතාව, n. entireness. wholeness, soundness, කැඩීනැති ස්වභාව.

අ ඝෝෂ, a. without sound, noiseless; gram. quiescent, mute, silent, නිශ්ශබ්ද.

අ ච්ඡිද්‍ර, a. (ඡිද්‍රය hole), without hole, සිදුරක් නැති, uninjured, sound, faultless, පලුදුනැති.

අ නද, a. fr. අ නාද: soundless, silent, නශ්‍ශබ්ද; joyless. ප්‍රීති නැති.

අ මෝඝ දෘෂ්ටියා, n. mas. person of sound views, unerring or infallible person.

අ රව, a. soundless, noiseless, silent, ශබ්දනැති නිශ්ශබ්ද.

අ රෝග, අ රෝගි, a. free from disease, healthy, sound, රෝග නැති.

අ ශබ්ද, a. soundless, silent, ශබ්දනැති, නිශ්ශබ්ද.

අකුණු හඬ, n. sound of thunder, thunder, අහස් ගිගුරුම.

අඩ සඳ, n. half sound, හීන්ශබ්දය; arrow, ඊගහ.

අඩි ගැස්ම, අඩි ගැහීම, n. stamping, &c; footstep; sound of the footstep; mark of the footstep, footprints, track.

අඩු ලුහුඬු, a. deficient, defective, imperfect, unsound.

අඬ, n. voice, sound.

අත් පොළ සන, n. the sound of hand-clapping.