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حُوشِىٌّ ذ Wild; untamed; undomesticated; uncivilized; unfamiliar; syn. وَحْشِىٌّ. (S, Msb.) ― -b2- Applied to a man, (tropical:) Wild; uncivilized; unfamiliar; (A;) unsociable; that does not mix with others. (S, A.) ― -b3- Applied to a camel, or other [animal], Wild: (K:) [or] the epithet thus applied is tropical; (A, TA;) and what are thus called, (K,) or الإِِبِلُ الحُوشِيَّةُ [the camels termed حوشيّة], (S, A, Msb,) are so named from ↓ الحُوشُ , the appellation of certain stallions of the camels of the jinn, or genii, which covered some of the she-camels of Arabs, (IKt, S, A, Msb, K,) as they assert, (S, K,) namely, of the she-camels of Mahrah, (K,) meaning the Benoo-Mahrah-Ibn-Heydán, (TA,) and the offspring were the camels called النَّجَائِبُ المَهْرِيَّةُ, (Msb, TA,) which scarcely ever become tired; and the like of this is said by AHeyth: (TA:) it is also said that ↓ الحُوشُ , (S, K,) from which the epithet above mentioned, thus applied, is a rel. n., (TA,) is the country of the jinn, (S, K,) beyond the sands of Yebreen, which no man inhabits: (S:) or an appellation of certain sons of the jinn, whose country is called بِلَادُ الحُوشِ by Ru-beh: (TA:) or it is like الوَحْش: (Msb:) or إِِبِلٌ حُوشِيَّةٌ means camels of the jinn: or wild camels; (TA;) as also ↓ حُوشٌ : (S:) or camels not completely broken or trained, because of their unyielding spirit. (TA.) ― -b4- Hence, (A,) رَجُلٌ حُوشِىٌّ الفُؤَادِ, (A,) or الفُؤَادِ ↓ حُوشُ , (S, K,) (tropical:) A man acute, or sharp, in intellect. (S, * A, K, * TA. *) ― -b5- You say also, كَلَامٌ حُوشِىٌّ (tropical:) Strange, uncouth, unusual, extraordinary, or unfamiliar, speech; such as is difficult to be understood; (Msb, K, TA;) i. q. وَحْشِىٌّ; (S, A;) [opposed to فَصِيحٌ:] and in like manner, لَفْظَةٌ حُوشِيَّةٌ a word, or phrase, that is strange, uncouth, unusual, &c.; as also لَفْظَةٌ وَحْشِيَّةٌ, and غَرِيبَةٌ, and شَارِدَةٌ; all opposed to لَفْظَةٌ فَصِيحَةٌ. (Mz, 13th نوع.) ― -b6- And لَيْلٌ حُوشِىٌّ (tropical:) A night that is dark (A, K) and terrible. (A, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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