දිස්නය, n. lustre, gloss, sheen, radiance.

දෙ, adj. prefix, two, the two, both, sp. used of pairs, as දෙපා. දෙඅත්, දෙපැත්ත, the two feet &c.

දැනීමඇති, දැනුමඇති, a. having sensation; sensory.

දූත·ක්‍රියාව, n. act of a messenger, delivery of a message.

දණ්ඩනාගාරය, n. (·ආගා:), house of correction, penitentiary, prison, දඟගෙය.

දක්‍ෂයා, n. clever person; name of a son of Brahma. He was called දක්‍ෂ because he sprang into being from the right-hand thumb of his father. He had sixty daughters, Next page Back to the Search Page   |   Back to the DDSA Page Charles Carter: A Sinhalese-English dictionary. Previous page Next page -- 273 -- twenty-seven of whom being married to the moon became the twenty-seven lunar mansions; one, දුර්‍ගා, was married to Siva, and thirteen became wives of කාශ්‍යප.

දීර්‍ඝකම. දීර්‍ඝතාව, n. lengthiness, දිගකම.

දුර්‍ලභ, a. difficult to obtain, scarce, rare, uncommon, වඩානැති.

ද්වි·ජය, n. what has a double birth, viz. tooth, දත; coriander seed, කොත්තමල්ලි.

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