لون العربية كحلي.

Literally, it is:

• لون = color
• العربية = the car
• كحلي = navy blue / dark blue

So the structure is basically:

[The color of the car] [is] [navy blue].

A more word-for-word gloss would be:

color the-car navy-blue

This is a very normal Arabic sentence pattern.

In Arabic, especially in the present tense, you usually do not say a separate word for is / am / are.

So:

• لون العربية كحلي = The car’s color is navy blue

There is no spoken equivalent of is here. This is called a nominal sentence.

If you are an English speaker, this can feel strange at first, but it is completely normal in Arabic.

This is an iḍāfa construction, often called a possessive construction or genitive construction.

لون العربية means:

• the color of the car
• or more naturally, the car’s color

In an iḍāfa:

1. the first noun usually does not take ال
2. the second noun shows whether the whole phrase is definite

So:

• لون عربية = a car’s color / the color of a car
• لون العربية = the color of the car

That is why لون appears without ال here.

As for endings like -ِ, those are case endings from formal Arabic, and in Egyptian Arabic they are normally not pronounced.

In Egyptian Arabic, العربية very commonly means the car.

This is one of those words that can surprise learners, because in other contexts عربي / عربية can relate to Arabic or Arab, but in Egyptian everyday speech:

• عربية = car

So in this sentence, Egyptians will normally understand العربية as the car, not the Arabic language.

كحلي is a color word meaning navy blue, dark blue, or deep blue.

It comes from كحل, which is the black eye cosmetic kohl. Because of that origin, the word suggests a dark, rich blue shade rather than a bright blue.

So it is more specific than just:

• أزرق = blue

كحلي = a darker blue, often navy

Because كحلي is describing لون here, not العربية directly.

The subject of the sentence is:

لون العربية = the color of the car

The head noun in that phrase is لون, and لون is masculine.

So:

• لون العربية كحلي = The car’s color is navy blue

Here, كحلي matches لون, not العربية.

If you described the car itself directly, you could say:

• العربية كحلية = The car is navy blue

That is why the form changes depending on what the adjective is describing.

A natural Egyptian pronunciation would be something like:

lōn il-ʿarabeyya koḥli

You may also hear:

lōn el-ʿarabeyya koḥli

A few notes:

• لون sounds like lōn
• العربية in Egyptian is commonly pronounced il-ʿarabeyya or el-ʿarabeyya
• كحلي is pronounced roughly koḥli

The ح in كحلي is the strong Arabic ḥ sound, not an English h.

Yes, absolutely. That is also very natural in Egyptian Arabic.

• لون العربية كحلي
• العربية لونها كحلي

Both mean essentially the same thing:

The car’s color is navy blue.

The second version is very common in conversation because it uses لونها = its color / her color.

So:

• العربية = the car
• لونها = its color
• كحلي = navy blue

Both patterns are useful, and you will hear both.

It fits Egyptian Arabic usage very well, especially because of العربية meaning the car.

The structure itself is understandable more broadly, but the vocabulary choice feels especially Egyptian.

Also, in Modern Standard Arabic, people might more often use other words for car, such as:

• السيارة

But in Egyptian everyday speech:

• العربية is extremely common

Yes. This sentence pattern is very productive.

For example:

• لون العربية أحمر = The car’s color is red
• لون العربية أبيض = The car’s color is white
• لون العربية أسود = The car’s color is black

The pattern is:

لون + noun + color adjective

Just remember that the color word is describing لون, so it will often appear in the masculine singular form in this structure.