ද්‍රවිකරණය, n. liquifaction, solution, දියකෙරීම.

දකුණු·සක, n. See දක්‍ෂිණශංඛය.

දුකූල, n. silk cloth, පටරෙදි; fine or cotton cloth, කපුපිළි.

දශේන්‍ද්‍රිය, n. pl. (දශ ඉන්‍ද්‍රිය), the ten organs of sense and action, viz. the skin, eye, tongue, nose, ear, larynx, hand, foot, anus, pudendum.

දරිද්‍ර, a. poor, indigent, දිළිඳු.

දැව, n. pl. timber, logs, beams.

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.

දානෝපකරණ, n. pl. (දාන උපකරණ) ingredients used in the preparation of offerings.

දහ·නවය, n. nineteen, (col.) දහනමය.

දකුණු, a. gift, present, alms, දානය, දන්දිම; the south, the region of Yama the Indian Pluto.