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 ගර, a. disrespectful, irreverent, uncivil, impudent; low, base, ගරුනැති.

අ චර්‍ම ඡේදිතතාව, අ චර්‍ම ඡේද්‍යය, n. uncircumcision.

අ චර්‍ම ඡේදිතයා, n. uncircumcised person.

අ ශිෂ්ට, a. ill-bred, coarse, rude, boorish, vulgar, ශිෂ්ටාචාර නැති; uncivilized, barbarian, වනචර.

අ ශිෂ්ටාචාර, a. boorish, clownish, vulgar, uncivil, rude, uncivilized: see අශිෂ්ට.

ආරෝචනය, n. announcing, announcement, සැලකිරීම, දැන්වීම.

උච්චාරණ, උච්චාරණ ප්‍රකාශක, a. pronouncing (dictionary &c.).

උච්චාරණය, n. utterance, articulation, enunciation, expression, pronunciation, ශබ්ද කිරීම.

උදෙසනවා, v. to enunciate, declare, දන්වනවා; pret. ඉදෙසුවා.

ගම්·සබය, ගම්·සභාව, n. village council, village tribunal.

ඥ, A letter compounded of the above and of ජ,= ජ්ඤ, but the ජ්is often dropped in or dianry pronunciation when it occurs as the inuitial letter of a word.

ද, n. The third of the dental letters. Its sound is like that of d heard in the Irish pronunciation of such words as drink, drip, drop &c.

දන්තාකාර, a. dentiform, runcinate, දත් වැනි දැති ආකාර.

දන්තුර, a. having a large or projecting tooth; undulatory, wavy, රැළි ආකාර; runcinate, දැති ආකාර.