نقش

مِنْقَاشٌ ذ An instrument with which variegated, or decorated or embellished, work is done: pl. مَنَاقِيشُ: (M:) [and an instrument with which engraving, or any sculptured work, is done: so in the present day.] ― -b2- Also, [ A kind of tweezers; ] an instrument with which one extracts, or draws or pulls out or forth, thorns; as also ↓ مِنْقَشٌ; (Msb, K;) [of which latter the pl. is مَنَاقِشُ, occurring below:] and with which one plucks out (S, A) hair. (A.) [Hence the saying,] اِسْتَخْرَجْتُ حَقِّى مِنْهُ بِالمَنَاقِشِ (tropical:) I wearied myself in extorting my right, or due, from him. (A.)