partridge.

…Ja.iii.538. -pattikā a kind of boot Vin.i.186.

Onomat. cp. Vedic tittira & tittiri, Gr.; τατύρας pheasant, Lit….

like partridge feathers (of a kind of a shoe)

…Vin.i.71 (˚kamma shaving), Vin.i.76 (kammāra˚); Ja.iii.22; Ja.vi.538 (+ tittira); Mil.11, Mil.128.

etym. uncertain, dialectical or =…

decoy-bird (Com. dīpaka-tittira, exciting partridge) Ja.iii.357.

…Vism.203

• -tittira a decoy partridge (cp. dīpaka˚) Ja.iii.64;
• -rukkha lit. lamp-tree,…

…partridge Ja.ii.161; -tittira same Ja.iii.358; -pakkhin a decoy bird Ja.v.376;…

adjective belonging to a partridge, like a partridge Ja.i.219 (brahmacariya).

fr. tittira