අනු පුර්‍වය, n. consecution, succession, ක්‍රමානු ක්‍රමය.

අ සංකුල ධූම, n. uncompressed or low steam, (යන්ත්‍රවල) ඝනවූ ධූම.

අප්‍රේල්මස, අප්‍රේල්මාසය, n. April.

අ ශරීරකරනවා, u. t. to disembody, ශරීරයෙන් චුතකරනවා.

අන්ත්‍ර ගුණය, n (ගුණය string or band), the mesentery, අතුණුබහන.

අ ව්‍යය, අ ව්‍යය ශබ්දය, n. gram. an indeclinable word.

අස්මි මානය, n. self-honour, egotism.

අංකුරය, n. germ. sprout, offshoot, offset, root-shoot.

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 ්.

අපුල්ලනවා, v. t. to full or wash clothes (generally by beating); pret. ඇපුල්ලුවා; v. n. ඇ පිල්ලීම.