الصيدلي هيقيس الجرعة.

It is Egyptian Arabic.

The biggest clue is هيقيس. In Egyptian Arabic, a common way to mark the future is with a prefix like هـ or حـ before the verb. In Modern Standard Arabic, you would more likely see سيقيس or سوف يقيس for will measure.

So this sentence is very natural for everyday Egyptian speech.

A good rough pronunciation is:

es-seidali hayiʔees el-gorʿa

A slightly more careful version is:

eṣ-ṣeidali hayiʔīs el-gorʿa

A few notes:

• ʔ is a glottal stop, like the break in uh-oh
• ʿ represents the Arabic letter ع
• ج in Egyptian Arabic is usually pronounced like g in go

Because ص is a sun letter.

In Arabic, when ال comes before a sun letter, the l sound is not pronounced. Instead, the next consonant gets doubled.

So:

• written: الصيدلي
• pronounced roughly: eṣ-ṣeidali or es-seidali

The spelling stays the same, but the pronunciation changes.

الصيدلي means the pharmacist.

Breakdown:

• صيدلي = pharmacist
• ال = the

Because it has ال, it is definite: the pharmacist, not just a pharmacist.

هيقيس means he will measure.

It is made of:

• هـ = future marker in Egyptian Arabic
• يقيس = he measures

So together:

• هيقيس = he will measure

Because the subject الصيدلي is masculine singular, the verb is also in the 3rd person masculine singular form.

Because in Egyptian Arabic, future meaning is often built into the verb itself.

In English, you say:

• will measure

In Egyptian Arabic, you usually add a prefix to the verb:

• هيقيس

So the idea of will is already inside the verb form.

Yes. In informal Egyptian writing, future forms can be spelled in slightly different ways depending on the writer.

You may see:

• هيقيس
• sometimes forms with حـ in learning materials or other informal writing styles

The important thing for a learner is that this prefix marks the future:

• هيقيس = he will measure

Because بيقيس and هيقيس do not mean the same thing.

• بيقيس = he measures / he is measuring
• هيقيس = he will measure

In Egyptian Arabic, بـ often marks the present or habitual action, while هـ here marks the future.

So:

• الصيدلي بيقيس الجرعة = the pharmacist measures / is measuring the dose
• الصيدلي هيقيس الجرعة = the pharmacist will measure the dose

Because in Egyptian Arabic, the letter ق is very often pronounced as a glottal stop ʔ.

So:

• يقيس sounds roughly like yiʔees
• هيقيس sounds roughly like hayiʔees

This is normal in Cairene and much of Egyptian speech. In other Arabic varieties, ق may be pronounced differently.

الجرعة means the dose.

In Egyptian Arabic, it is pronounced roughly:

el-gorʿa

A few useful points:

• ج is usually pronounced g in Egyptian Arabic
• ع is the consonant represented by ʿ
• ال here is pronounced normally as el-, because ج is not a sun letter

So:

• الجرعة = the dose

Because the sentence is talking about a specific pharmacist and a specific dose.

• الصيدلي = the pharmacist
• الجرعة = the dose

If you remove ال, the meaning becomes more general or indefinite.

So this sentence is not just saying a pharmacist will measure a dose. It is talking about a particular pharmacist and a particular dose.

Because subject–verb–object order is very common in Egyptian Arabic, especially in everyday speech.

So:

• الصيدلي هيقيس الجرعة = The pharmacist will measure the dose

This word order sounds natural and conversational.

Arabic can also use other word orders, especially in more formal styles, but for spoken Egyptian Arabic, this subject-first structure is very common.

You would change the verb to match the subject.

For a female pharmacist:

• الصيدلانية هتقيس الجرعة
• The female pharmacist will measure the dose

For pharmacists plural:

• الصيادلة هيقيسوا الجرعة
• The pharmacists will measure the dose

So the verb changes with the subject, just like you would expect.