زهو

زُهَاآءٌ ذ Number, or amount. (JK, Msb.) You say, كَمْ زُهَاؤُهُمْ How many is their number? or how much is their amount? (Msb, TA:) or, the computation of them? (TA.) And هُمْ زُهَاآءُ مِائَةٍ [ They are as many as a hundred; ] they are the number, or amount, of a hundred; (El-Fárábee, S, Mgh, Msb, K; *) or their number, or amount, is a hundred: (Mgh:) and مِائَةٍ ↓ زِهَاآءُ, also, with kesr: (El-Fárábee, Msb:) but the saying of the [common] people هُمْ زُهَاآء عَلَى مِائَة is not [correct] Arabic. (Msb.) ― -b2- Also A large number: whence in a trad. respecting the time of the resurrection, اـِذَا سَمِعْتُمْ بِنَاسٍ مِنْ قِبَلِ المَشْرِقِ أُولِى زُهَاآءٍ i. e. [ When ye hear of men coming from the direction of the east, ] having a large number. (TA.) ― -b3- And زُهَاآءُ الشَّىْءِ signifies The شَخْص [i. e. corporeal form or figure or substance, which one sees from a distance, ] of the thing. (TA.)