අට තැලියා, අට තුලියා, n. goldsmith or silver-smith, බඩාලා.

අසුරුවනවා, v. c. of අසුරනවා: to cause to pile up or arrange; to cause to stop up (a gap or hole); pret. ඇසිරෙවුවා; v. n. ඇසිරවීම.

අනුපහත, a. (අන් උප, හත), unsmitten, පහර නොලැබු, uninjured, unhurt, අනදරනූණ.

අ මර්‍ත්‍ය, a. immortal, අමර, divine, දේව.

අව රෝහණයවෙනවා, v. i. to descend, alight, බහිනවා.

අති ප්‍රමෝදක, a very delightful, enrapturing, transporting, පිණවන.

අවනවා, v. to imprecate, curse, ශාපකරනවා; pret. ඇවුවා.

අප භ්‍රංශ, a. (අප off, භ්‍රංශ falling), ungrammatical. E. S.

අලසයා, n. lazy person &c., drone, laggard, කම්මැළියා.

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 ්.