الترابيزة خشب.

A natural Egyptian pronunciation is:

et-tarabeeza khashab

A few notes:

• الترابيزة is usually pronounced et-tarabeeza in Egyptian.
• The ل of ال is not really heard here, because ت is a sun letter, so the sound assimilates:
  الترابيزة → اتّربيزة / et-tarabeeza
• خشب is pronounced khashab.

So the whole sentence sounds roughly like:

et-tarabeeza khashab

Because in Arabic, including Egyptian Arabic, the verb to be is usually not said in the present tense.

So instead of saying:

• The table is wood

Egyptian just says:

• The table wood

This is a completely normal and complete sentence structure in Arabic. It is called a nominal sentence.

If you wanted was or will be, then Arabic would use a word for that, for example:

• الترابيزة كانت خشب = The table was wood / wooden
• الترابيزة هتبقى خشب = The table will be wood / wooden

Yes, ترابيزة is a very common Egyptian Arabic word for table.

A few useful comparisons:

• Egyptian Arabic: ترابيزة
• Modern Standard Arabic: usually طاولة or sometimes مائدة depending on context

So if you learn الترابيزة, you are learning a very everyday Egyptian word, not the most formal pan-Arabic one.

In Egyptian Arabic, it is very common to use the material noun itself as the predicate.

So:

• الترابيزة خشب literally looks like The table wood
• But the meaning is The table is made of wood / The table is wooden

English normally prefers an adjective like wooden, but Arabic often just names the material directly.

This is very common with materials, for example:

• الباب حديد = The door is iron / made of iron
• الخاتم دهب = The ring is gold

Because خشب here is the predicate, and it is being used in a general, indefinite sense: wood as a material.

So:

• الترابيزة = the table
• خشب = wood

If you added الـ and said الخشب, it would sound more like the wood, which is not what you want here.

In other words:

• خشب = wood, wooden, made of wood
• الخشب = the wood

Good question. ترابيزة is generally treated as feminine, but خشب here is not behaving like a regular adjective. It is a noun naming the material.

Because of that, it stays:

• خشب

and does not become feminine.

If you used an actual adjective meaning wooden, then you would expect feminine agreement, for example:

• الترابيزة خشبية

That form is more adjective-like. But in everyday Egyptian, الترابيزة خشب is very natural.

Yes. It is a full, natural sentence.

Its structure is:

• الترابيزة = the topic/subject
• خشب = the comment/predicate

Arabic does not need an explicit is in the present tense, so this already counts as a complete sentence.

This kind of sentence is extremely common in Arabic.

Yes, absolutely.

Both are understandable, but they feel slightly different:

• الترابيزة خشب = very direct, everyday, compact
• الترابيزة من خشب = explicitly made of wood

The version with من can feel a little clearer for beginners because it maps more closely to English made of.

In casual Egyptian speech, though, dropping من is very common when talking about material.

It is clearly Egyptian Arabic in flavor.

Why?

• ترابيزة is a common Egyptian colloquial word
• The sentence has the simple spoken style typical of dialect
• There are no case endings, which is normal in dialect

In Modern Standard Arabic, you would be more likely to see something like:

• الطاولة خشبية
• الطاولة من الخشب

So this sentence is a good example of natural spoken Egyptian Arabic.

In Egyptian Arabic, you can say:

• الترابيزة مش خشب

Here مش means not / isn’t in this kind of sentence.

So the pattern is:

• الترابيزة خشب = The table is wood / wooden
• الترابيزة مش خشب = The table is not wood

This is one of the most useful Egyptian negation patterns to learn.