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 ගුණ, a. void of goodness, churlish, ill-natured, evil; inefficacious; unwholesome, noxious.

අ චේතනික භාවය, n. mindlessness, &c.; gram. involitive voice, අකර්‍මක ක්‍රියාව.

අ පරි හාර්‍ය්‍ය, a. (හාර්‍ය්‍ය that should be taken away), unavoidable, inevitable. E. S.

අ පරි හාර්‍ය්‍යකාරයෙන්, ad. unavoidably &c.

අ පරි හාර්‍ය්‍යතාව, n. unavoidableness &c.

අ ශුන්‍ය, a. not empty, not vacant, not void or vain, හිස්නැති.

අගස්ති, අගස්ත්‍ය, n. a rishi so named, who, according to mythology, was born in a water jar, once swallowed the ocean, but voided it again, and is the regent of the star Canopus.

අණ්ඩාකාර, අණ්ඩාකෘති, a. (ආකාර, ආකෘති), oval, elliptic, oviform, ovoid, බිජු හැඩය ඇති.

අඬ, n. voice, sound.

අෂ්ටාංග බ්‍රහ්ම ඝෝෂාව, n. Brahma's eight-toned voice, අට ආකාර නාදයෙන් යුත් බ්‍රහ්මයාගේ කට

ආත්මනේ පදය, n. gram. middle voice.

ඕසේ, n. continued sound of the voice after the word is finished.

කට හඬ, n. the voice.

කර්‍තෘ වාච්‍යය, n. gram. expressing the agent, active verb or voice.