خَزْيَةٌ
Root: خزى
Full Definition
خَزْيَةٌ
A habit, a quality, a practice, or an action, or a crime, a sin, or an offence, or act of disobedience, of which one is, or should be, ashamed: (JK, TA: [and
مَخْزَاةٌ , which is coupled therewith in the JK, app. as syn. with it, properly signifies a thing, or an action, &c., that is a cause of shame, or of abasement or disgrace; being a noun of the class of مَبْخَلَةٌ and مَجْبَنَةٌ; originally مَخْزَيَةٌ: see 4, last sentence:]) and
مُخْزِيَةٌ , of the form of an act. part. n., from أَخْزَى, signifies [the same; or] a bad, an evil, or a foul, habit, quality, practice, or action: the pl. of this last is مُخْزِيَاتٌ, and of the same [and of مَخْزَاةٌ also] مَخَازٍ. Or the first signifies A habit, a practice, or an action, in which one becomes base, despicable, or ignominious.
2 Also A trial, or an affliction, into which one is made to fall; and so خِزْيَةٌ .
2 Also A trial, or an affliction, into which one is made to fall; and so خِزْيَةٌ .
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