القميص ازرق.

A common Egyptian pronunciation is el-ʔamīṣ azraʔ.

A few helpful notes:

• ال is usually pronounced el- in Egyptian.
• قميص in Egyptian is often pronounced with a glottal stop at the beginning: ʔamīṣ.
• The ص at the end of قميص is an emphatic s sound.
• أزرق / ازرق is pronounced azraʔ or ʔazraʔ, depending on how carefully someone is speaking.

So the whole sentence sounds roughly like el-ʔamīṣ azraʔ = the shirt is blue.

In Arabic, including Egyptian Arabic, the verb to be is usually omitted in the present tense.

So:

• القميص ازرق literally looks like the shirt blue
• but it means the shirt is blue

This is completely normal. Arabic only uses an explicit was/were type verb in past contexts, or other forms in non-present contexts.

For example:

• القميص كان ازرق = the shirt was blue

In Arabic, adjectives normally come after the noun they describe.

So:

• قميص أزرق = a blue shirt
• literally: shirt blue

That is the normal order in Arabic. English puts the adjective first, but Arabic usually puts it second.

In your sentence, ازرق comes after القميص, which fits Arabic word order.

These mean different things:

• القميص ازرق = the shirt is blue
• القميص الأزرق = the blue shirt

This is a very important difference.

In القميص ازرق, the second word is the predicate of the sentence, so it does not take ال.

In القميص الأزرق, الأزرق is directly describing the noun as an adjective inside a noun phrase, so it does take ال to match القميص.

So:

• the shirt is blue → القميص أزرق
• the blue shirt → القميص الأزرق

ال is the Arabic definite article, meaning the.

So:

• قميص = a shirt / shirt
• القميص = the shirt

In this sentence, the speaker is talking about a specific shirt, so القميص has ال.

Because here ازرق is not part of the blue shirt. It is the predicate: it tells you something about the shirt.

Compare:

• القميص أزرق = the shirt is blue
• القميص الأزرق = the blue shirt

When an adjective is used as the predicate in a sentence like this, it is usually indefinite, so it appears without ال.

That is why ازرق stands without ال in your sentence.

In careful standard spelling, it is usually written أزرق with a hamza.

So the more standard written form is:

• القميص أزرق

But in casual writing, many people leave hamzas off, so you may also see:

• القميص ازرق

So:

• أزرق = more standard spelling
• ازرق = common informal spelling

A learner should recognize both.

Yes. Arabic adjectives agree with the noun in gender and number.

Here, القميص is masculine singular, so the adjective is also masculine singular:

• القميص أزرق = the shirt is blue

If the noun were feminine, the adjective would change too.

For example, with a feminine noun, you would use the feminine form of blue, not أزرق.

So the form ازرق / أزرق here matches القميص.

It works in both, but with a few differences.

In writing, القميص أزرق looks very close to Standard Arabic.

In Egyptian Arabic:

• the pronunciation is different
• case endings are not used
• hamzas are often written less carefully in informal text

So an Egyptian speaker would absolutely understand and use this kind of sentence, especially in writing, but the pronunciation would sound Egyptian, not formal Standard Arabic.

This is a nominal sentence: a sentence that starts with a noun rather than a verb.

It has two main parts:

• القميص = the topic / subject
• ازرق = the description / predicate

So the structure is:

• noun + adjective
• meaning X is Y

This pattern is extremely common in Arabic:

• البيت كبير = the house is big
• الجو حلو = the weather is nice
• القميص أزرق = the shirt is blue

Yes.

Without ال, قميص أزرق usually means a blue shirt.

Compare these three patterns:

• قميص أزرق = a blue shirt
• القميص الأزرق = the blue shirt
• القميص أزرق = the shirt is blue

So the presence or absence of ال on both words matters a lot. It tells you whether you have:

• a noun phrase, or
• a full sentence

That is one of the most important things to notice in Arabic.