දව්ලනවා, v. t. to clinch; pret. දැව්ලුවා; v. n. දැව්ලීම.

දුම්·වන්, a. smoke-coloured, dun, purple, දුඹුටු.

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.

දල·බින්‍දුව, n. drop of water, ජලබින්‍දුව.

දෙකට, ad. in two, as දෙකටකපනවා, to cut in two; at two o'clock.

දශ·විධ·රත්න, n. pl. ten kinds of precious things, viz. pearls, gems, emerald, ruby, lapsis lazuli, stone (ශිලා), gold, silver, coral, conch.

ද්වීරූප, a. of two forms, biform, දෙරූප, දෙවිධි.

දන්ත·කාෂ්ඨය, n. stick for cleaning the teeth, දැහැටිය.

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.

දධි·ඵල, n. elephant or wood apple, දිවුල් ගෙඩි.