مُحْتَرَسٌ

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مُحْتَرَسٌ [pass. part. n. of 8]. You say, مُحْتَرَسٌ مِنْ مِثْلِهِ وَهْوَ حَارِسٌ [From such as he does one guard himself, whereas he is a guardian]: a prov.: alluding to him who finds fault with a bad man when he is himself worse than he: or to him who is intrusted with the guarding of a thing when one is not secure from his being unfaithful with respect to it. [See also Freytag's Arab. Prov., ii. 706.]

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