tiracchāna

Pali

Alternative scripts

𑀢𑀺𑀭𑀘𑁆𑀙𑀸𑀦 (Brahmi script)
तिरच्छान (Devanagari script)
তিরচ্ছান (Bengali script)
තිරච‍්ඡාන (Sinhalese script)
တိရစ္ဆာန or တိရၸ္ꧡႃၼ or တိရၸ်ꧡႃၼ (Burmese script)
ติรจฺฉาน or ติรัจฉานะ (Thai script)
ᨲᩥᩁᨧ᩠ᨨᩣᨶ (Tai Tham script)
ຕິຣຈ຺ຉານ or ຕິຣັຈຉານະ (Lao script)
តិរច្ឆាន (Khmer script)
𑄖𑄨𑄢𑄌𑄴𑄍𑄂𑄚 (Chakma script)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-Iranian *tr̥HaćčáH

Sanskrit तिरश्चा (tiraścā)

Sanskrit तिरश्च (tiraśca)

Pali tiracchāna

Inherited from Sanskrit तिरश्च (tiraśćá, “crosswise, horizontal”), in reference to animals' walking on all fours rather than erect and upright. Cognate with Prakrit 𑀢𑀺𑀭𑀺𑀘𑁆𑀙 (tiriccha).

Noun

tiracchāna m

animal, beast

Declension

Declension table of "tiracchāna" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	tiracchāno	tiracchānā
Accusative (second)	tiracchānaṃ	tiracchāne
Instrumental (third)	tiracchānena	tiracchānehi or tiracchānebhi
Dative (fourth)	tiracchānassa or tiracchānāya or tiracchānatthaṃ	tiracchānānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	tiracchānasmā or tiracchānamhā or tiracchānā	tiracchānehi or tiracchānebhi
Genitive (sixth)	tiracchānassa	tiracchānānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	tiracchānasmiṃ or tiracchānamhi or tiracchāne	tiracchānesu
Vocative (calling)	tiracchāna	tiracchānā

Derived terms

tiracchānayoni (“realm of the horizontal beings, animal realm”)

Descendants

→ Burmese: တိရစ္ဆာန် (ti.rachcan)
→ Khmer: តិរច្ឆាន (teracchaan)
→ Mon: တိရစ္ဆာန်
→ Thai: เดียรฉาน (diia-rá-chǎan)
→ Sinhalese: තිරිසන් (tirisan)

References

Maung Tin (1920), The Student's Pali-English Dictionary, Rangoon: British Burma Press.
Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “tiracchāna”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead, page 303
Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875, page 508.
A. P. Buddhadatta Mahāthera (1958) Concise Pāli-English Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, page 137
Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “tiraścá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 331