المعازيم بيحتفلوا بالفرح.

المعازيم means the invited guests or simply the guests.

It comes from معزوم, which means invited. In Egyptian Arabic, المعازيم is a very common word for guests at an event, especially a wedding or party.

So in this sentence, it does not just mean random people present. It specifically suggests people who were invited.

Yes. المعازيم can refer to a mixed group of guests, not just men.

Related forms are:

• معزوم = an invited man
• معزومة = an invited woman
• معازيم = invited guests / invitees

In real usage, the plural المعازيم is often used for the whole group regardless of gender.

In Egyptian Arabic, بيـ is a common marker for the present tense or habitual/current action.

So:

• بيحتفلوا = they celebrate / they are celebrating

This بيـ is very typical in spoken Egyptian Arabic. It is one of the things that makes the sentence clearly colloquial rather than Modern Standard Arabic.

The ending ـوا shows that the subject is they.

So:

• بيحتفل = he celebrates / is celebrating
• بيحتفلوا = they celebrate / are celebrating

This is the plural verb ending used with a plural subject.

Arabic does not need a separate helping verb like English are in this kind of sentence.

English says:

• The guests are celebrating

Egyptian Arabic simply uses the present verb form:

• المعازيم بيحتفلوا

So the idea of are celebrating is already built into the verb form itself. You do not need an extra word for are.

The بـ here is the preposition bi-, meaning something like with / at / in relation to, depending on context.

With the verb احتفل (to celebrate), Arabic commonly uses this preposition. So:

• احتفل بـ... = to celebrate ... / celebrate with ... / celebrate at ...

That is why you get:

• بالفرح = with the wedding / at the wedding

Even though English usually says celebrate the wedding without a preposition, Arabic often uses بـ after this verb.

Literally, فرح can mean joy or happiness.

But in Egyptian Arabic, فرح very often also means wedding or wedding celebration.

In this sentence, الفرح clearly means the wedding because of the context:

• المعازيم = the guests
• بيحتفلوا بالفرح = are celebrating the wedding / celebrating at the wedding

So this is a very Egyptian usage.

Because both nouns are definite here:

• المعازيم = the guests
• الفرح = the wedding

Arabic uses الـ the way English uses the. In a sentence like this, both are understood as specific:

• the invited guests
• the wedding being talked about

Yes, this is clearly Egyptian Arabic.

Signs of that include:

• المعازيم is a very colloquial Egyptian word
• بيحتفلوا uses the Egyptian present marker بيـ
• الفرح meaning wedding is very common in Egyptian speech

A more Modern Standard Arabic version would sound different, for example using more formal vocabulary and different verb forms.

A rough pronunciation is:

el-maʕāzeem biyiḥtafilu bel-faraḥ

A few pronunciation notes:

• ع in المعازيم is the sound written here as ʕ. English does not really have this sound.
• ح in بيحتفلوا and الفرح is a strong breathy h, deeper than normal English h.
• الـ is often pronounced el- in Egyptian Arabic.

So you might hear something close to:

el-maʕāzeem bey-eḥtafelu bel-faraḥ

Exact vowels vary a bit by speaker.

In Egyptian Arabic, it is very common to put the subject first, especially in everyday speech:

• المعازيم بيحتفلوا = The guests are celebrating

This word order feels natural and straightforward.

Arabic can also use verb-first order in some contexts, but in spoken Egyptian, subject + verb is extremely common and often sounds more conversational.