خَزْيَةٌ
1.
A habit, a quality, a practice, or an action, (JK,) or a crime, a sin, or an offence, or act of disobedience, (TA,) of which one is, or should be, ashamed: (JK, TA: [and
مَخْزَاةٌ, which is coupled therewith in the JK, apparently as synonym 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. particle n., from أَخْزَى, signifies [the same; or] a bad, an evil, or a foul, habit, quality, practice, or action: the plural of this last is مُخْزِيَاتٌ, and of the same [and of مَخْزَاةٌ also] مَخَازٍ. (Msb.) Or the first signifies A habit, a practice, or an action, in which one becomes base, despicable, or ignominious. (Mgh.)