زُهَاءٌ

Number, or amount. (JK, Msb.) You say, كَمْ زُهَاوءُهُمْ How many is their number? or how much is their amount? (Msb, TA:) or, the computation of them? (TA.) And هُمْ زُهَاءُ مِايءَةٍ [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 مِايءَةٍ ↓ زِهَاءُ, also, with kesr: (El-Fárábee, Msb:) but the saying of the [common] people هُمْ زُهَاء عَلَى مِايءَة is not [correct] Arabic. (Msb.)

Also A large number: whence in a tradition respecting the time of the resurrection, إِذَا سَمِعْتُمْ بِنَاسٍ مِنْ قِبَلِ المَشْرِقِ أُولِى زُهَاءٍ i. e. [When ye hear of men coming from the direction of the east,] having a large number. (TA.)

And زُهَاءُ الشَّىْءِ signifies The شَخْص [i. e. corporeal form or figure or substance, which one sees from a distance,] of the thing. (TA.)