අධි, prefix. above, over, superior.

අධි ක්ෂිප්ත, n. censured: rejected, එපාකරනලද.

අල්ප ප්‍රාණාක්ෂරය, n. gram. unaspirated letter as ක, not ඛ.

අන්තිමේට, අන්තිමේදී, ad. ultimately, at last, finally.

අ සාම්‍යතාව, අ සාම්‍යය, n. dissimilarity &c., සමානනැතිකම.

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 ්.

අඩහැරකරනවා, v. t. to shape, form, fit, හැඩහුරුකරනවා

අ විශේෂ, a. not special or characteristic, undistinguishing, not differing, ordinary: see අවිශිෂ්ට.

අ ව්‍යාධික, අ ව්‍යාධිත, a. undiseased, healthy, නිරෝගි.

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