مبروك للعريس والعروسة.

A natural Egyptian pronunciation is:

mabrūk lel-ʿarīs wel-ʿarūsa

A rough breakdown:

• مبروك → mabrūk
• للعريس → lel-ʿarīs
• والعروسة → wel-ʿarūsa

Two useful pronunciation notes:

• و is often pronounced we in Egyptian, not wa
• ل + ال gets pronounced together, so للعريس sounds like lel-ʿarīs

In everyday Arabic, مبروك works like a complete congratulatory expression by itself, similar to Congratulations! in English.

Historically, it comes from a word pattern that behaves like an adjective/participle, but in normal speech you do not need to think of a full sentence behind it. Arabic often allows short expressions like this without an explicit verb.

So in this sentence, مبروك simply means something like congratulations.

The لـ means to or for.

So the structure is:

• مبروك = congratulations
• للعريس والعروسة = to the groom and the bride

That is why the sentence is addressed to them, even though it is not using a verb like I congratulate.

Because the preposition لـ joins directly to the following word in Arabic spelling.

When لـ comes before a word with ال, they combine:

• ل + العريس
• becomes للعريس

In pronunciation, this gives a doubled l sound: lel-ʿarīs.

Good question. The ل of ال only disappears in pronunciation before sun letters. But ع is not a sun letter, so the l stays.

That is why you say:

• el-ʿarīs
• el-ʿarūsa

not a doubled ʿ sound.

So here the article keeps its l sound.

In Egyptian Arabic, عروسة is the normal everyday word for bride, and عريس is the normal word for groom.

The ending ة is the common feminine ending. In Egyptian pronunciation, it is usually heard as -a at the end of a phrase, so عروسة sounds like ʿarūsa.

You may also see عروس in more formal Arabic, but عروسة is very natural in Egyptian speech.

It is very natural in Egyptian Arabic, especially because of العروسة and the Egyptian-style pronunciation wel / lel.

But it would also be understood by many Arabic speakers outside Egypt. So it is Egyptian in flavor, but not hard for others to understand.

In everyday speech, مبروك is usually treated as a fixed expression, so it often stays the same even if you are congratulating more than one person.

So مبروك للعريس والعروسة is completely natural.

A learner may expect agreement, but with common expressions like this, Arabic often prefers the fixed form.

There is no important grammatical reason here. It is just a common and natural pairing in this expression.

You could reverse the order, and people would still understand you. But العريس والعروسة sounds very familiar and idiomatic.

Yes, absolutely.

ألف مبروك is a very common way to make the congratulations warmer or more enthusiastic. It literally means a thousand congratulations, but in practice it just means many congratulations.

So both of these are natural:

• مبروك للعريس والعروسة
• ألف مبروك للعريس والعروسة

The letter ع is called ʿayn, and it does not have a true English equivalent.

It is a throat sound made deeper in the throat than normal English vowels. For beginners, the most important thing is:

• do not turn it into a hard g
• do not pronounce it like a full English consonant such as r
• try to make a slight throat constriction before the vowel

So:

• العريس ≈ el-ʿarīs
• العروسة ≈ el-ʿarūsa

If you cannot produce ʿayn perfectly yet, that is normal. A careful approximation is fine at first.