අඩි කෝදුව, n. foot-rule, කෝදුව,

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 ්.

අමා රැස, n. nectar-ray, viz. the moon, හඳ.

අ භාව, a. non-existent, පැවැත්මක් නැති: negative, privative, නැතිබව හඟවන.

අ වාස්තව්‍ය, a. uninhabitable, වාසයකළ නොහැකිවු (තැන).

අ ශ්‍රාන්ත, a. unwearied, unfatigued, වෙහෙස‍ නොවී සිටින.

අධ්‍යාපකයා, n. teacher, instructor, educator, ගුරුවරයා.

අර්‍ශස, අර්‍ශස්, a. hemorrhoidal, ගුදකීල, අර්‍ශස්රෝගි.

අර්‍ශස, අර්‍ශස්රෝගය, n. piles, hemorrhoids, ගුද කීලය.