tiracchāna : [m.] an animal; a beast.

A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera, Concise Pali-English and English-Pali Dictionary [available as digital version from Metta Net, Sri Lanka]

Tiracchāna [for ˚gata=Sk. tiraścīna (˚gata)=tiraśca; "going horizontally," i. e. not erect. Cp. tiraccha, tiriyaŋ, tiro] an animal It 92 (tiracchānaŋ ca yoniyo for tiracchāna -- yoniyo); Vbh 339 (˚gāminī paṭipadā leading to rebirth among beasts); VvA 23 (manussatiracchāna an animal -- man, wild man, "werwolf").
   -- kathā "animal talk"; wrong or childish talk in general Vin i.188; D i.7, 178; iii.54; Vism 127; expld at DA i.89 by anīyānikattā sagga -- mokkha -- maggānaŋ tiraccha -- bhūtā kathā; -- gata an animal, a beast Vin iv.7; S iii.152=DA i.23; (t. pāṇā) M iii.167 (t. pāṇā tiṇabhakkhā); Nd2 on Sn 72 (t. -- pāṇā); J i.459 (=vanagocara); Vbh 412 sq.; -- yoni the realm of the brute creation, the animals. Among the 5 gatis (niraya t. manussā devā pettivisaya) it counts as an apāyagati, a state of misery D i.228; iii.234; S i.34; iii.225 sq.; iv. 168, 307; A i.60; ii.127, 129; Pv iv.111; Vism 103, 427; PvA 27, 166; -- yonika (& yoniya A i.37) belonging to the realm of the animals S v.356; -- vijjā a low art, a pseudo -- science Vin ii.139; D i.9 sq.

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