*වි·නාශක, වි·නාශකර, වි·නාශදායක, a. (වි emp.), destroying, destructive, consuming, noxious, ruinous, causing or bringing destruction, නාස්තිකරන, නාස්තික.

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 කනිඨ, අ කනිෂ්ඨ, a. not inferior or younger, elder, eldest, superior.

අ ක්‍රම, අ ක්‍රමක, අ ක්‍රමික, a. irregular, anomalous, desultory, unmethodical, unsystematic, ක්‍රමනැති.

අ ක්‍රාන්ත, a. not passed, not overcome, unsurpassed. E. S.

අ කාණ්ඩ, a. sudden, unexpected, nnlooked for, හදිසි. E. S.

අ කිරිය, n. (අ priv., කිරිය deed), resultlessness, impracticalness.

අ කීකරු, a. disobedient, insubordinate.

අ කීකරුකම, n. disobedience, insubordination.

අ කීකරුවා, n. mas. disobedient or insubordinate person.

අ කුත්සිත, a. uncensured, unreproached, නිවරදි, not despised, respectable, නම්බුකාර.

අ කුසල, n. demerit; misfortune or affliction. as the result of demerit in a former existence, අවාසනාව.

අ ගති, n. pl. or a. evil dispositions; evil, ill-natured, surly, morose, resentful, perverse.

අ ගූඪ ඥානය, n. superficial knowledge, smattering, අල්ප දැනගැන්ම.

අ ගෝචර, a. imperceptible (to the senses), නො දැනෙන; not pertinent, irrelevant, unsuitable, අදාළනැති.