الدكتورة بصت على دراعي.

A careful rough pronunciation is ed-doktora baṣṣet ʿala diraaʿi.

A more learner-friendly version would be something like ed-dok-tora bas-set a-la di-raa-i, but remember that:

• د in الدكتورة doubles in pronunciation because of the article
• ص is a heavier, emphatic s
• ع in على and دراعي is a throat sound that English does not have

It is Egyptian Arabic.

Clues:

• بصت is a very common Egyptian colloquial verb form
• دراع is colloquial Egyptian for arm
• In MSA, a more formal version would be something like نظرت الدكتورة إلى ذراعي or الدكتورة نظرت إلى ذراعي

So this sentence sounds natural in everyday Egyptian speech, not formal news-style Arabic.

الدكتورة means the female doctor.

Breakdown:

• ال = the
• دكتورة = female doctor

This word is feminine because the doctor is a woman. In Egyptian Arabic, دكتورة is very common in everyday speech.

Also, even though it is written الـ, it is pronounced more like ed- here, because the ل of the article blends into the next consonant.

Because د is a sun letter.

When ال comes before a sun letter, the ل is not pronounced separately. Instead, the next consonant gets doubled.

So:

• written: الدكتورة
• pronounced: ed-doktora or id-doktora

You will see this a lot in Arabic:

• الشمس → pronounced esh-shams
• الراجل → pronounced er-ragel
• الدكتورة → pronounced ed-doktora

Because the subject, الدكتورة, is feminine singular.

بصت is the past tense, 3rd person feminine singular form: she looked.

You can think of it like this:

• بصّ = he looked
• بصت = she looked

So the verb agrees with الدكتورة.

The basic verb is بصّ.

In Egyptian Arabic, بصّ means to look, to glance, or to take a look. It is a very common everyday verb.

It is less formal than the MSA verb نظر.

Also, بصّ is about looking, not necessarily seeing.
So it is closer to looked at than to saw.

Because in Egyptian Arabic, بصّ على is a normal way to say look at something.

So:

• بصت على دراعي = she looked at my arm

This is a good example of why you should not translate prepositions word-for-word between English and Arabic. English uses at, but Arabic uses على here.

It is made of:

• دراع = arm
• -ي = my

So:

• دراع = arm
• دراعي = my arm

This is very common in Arabic: possession is often shown by attaching a suffix directly to the noun.

Examples:

• كتابي = my book
• بيتي = my house
• دراعي = my arm

Because Arabic usually uses attached pronoun suffixes instead of separate words.

In English, you say:

• my arm

In Arabic, you usually say:

• arm + my
• دراع + ي → دراعي

So the -ي at the end already contains the meaning of my.

ذراع is the more formal / MSA form, while دراع is the normal Egyptian colloquial form.

This kind of difference is very common between MSA and dialects. Egyptian Arabic often has everyday words or pronunciations that differ from formal Arabic.

So:

• ذراع = formal / MSA
• دراع = common Egyptian speech

Because subject-first order is very common in Egyptian Arabic.

So الدكتورة بصت على دراعي is completely natural.

You could also hear verb-first order in Arabic, but in everyday Egyptian, starting with the subject is extremely common:

• الدكتورة بصت على دراعي
• literally: the doctor looked at my arm

This feels very normal in conversation.

That letter is ع and its name is ʿayn.

It is a deep throat consonant with no exact English equivalent. In this sentence, it appears in:

• على
• دراعي

Learners often find it difficult at first. That is normal. Even if your pronunciation is not perfect yet, it is good to notice that ع is a real consonant and not just a silent mark.

Yes.

A more formal Arabic version would be:

• الدكتورة نظرت إلى ذراعي or
• الطبيبة نظرت إلى ذراعي

Compared with that:

• الدكتورة بصت على دراعي sounds natural, spoken, and Egyptian
• نظرت إلى ذراعي sounds more formal and MSA-like