අර්‍ණමය, n. extreme minuteness or fineness, miraculous attenuation or sublimation of the body, ඉතා සායුම් ගතිය.

අස්ථි විස්තරකාරයා, අස්ථි ශාස්ත්‍රඥයා, n. osteologist.

අ ප්‍රති ශුඬ, a. unpurified, impure, අපිරිසිදු.

අල්පාර්‍හ, a. (අල්ප අර්‍හ), worth little, ටිකක් වටිනා, වඩා නොවටින.

අවයවය, n. limb or member of the body, member of a society &c,; premiss, තර්‍කාංගය; news, ආරංචිය.

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 ්.

අනාලය, a. desireless, ආලයනැති; houseless, ගෙයක් නැති.

අන්ත වීජය, n. final cause, මුල්-හේතුක-අදහස.

අ පිරි, අ පිරිපුන්, a. not filled, incomplete, පිරි ලානැති, අසම්පූර්‍ණ.

අමෝදය, n. See ආමෝදය.