دَنِيَّهٌ

A low, or base, quality, property, natural disposition, habit, practice, or action; synonym نَقِيصَةٌ; (Mgh;) or such as is blamed; originally دَنِيْيءَةٌ: (TA:) plural دَنَايَا. (Har p. 327.) Hence the saying of Ibn-Háritheh, المَنِيَّةَ لَا الدَّنِيَّةَ, meaning I choose death rather than, or not, disgrace. (Har ubi suprà.)