المعلقة فضة.

In Arabic, sentences like this usually do not use a present-tense verb for is / am / are.

So:

• المعلقة فضة
• literally: the spoon silver
• natural meaning: The spoon is silver

This is called a nominal sentence. In the present tense, Egyptian Arabic usually just puts the topic first and the description after it.

If you wanted a different tense, then a verb would appear, for example:

• كانت المعلقة فضة = The spoon was silver
• المعلقة هتبقى فضة = The spoon will be silver

الـ is the Arabic definite article, meaning the.

So:

• معلقة = a spoon / spoon
• المعلقة = the spoon

In Egyptian Arabic, الـ is usually pronounced el-.

Here the next letter is م, so it stays clear and does not assimilate. So you say something like:

• el-ma...

not a doubled consonant sound.

That is a very good question.

In Standard Arabic, spoon is normally written:

• ملعقة

In Egyptian Arabic, many people write it as:

• معلقة

to reflect the everyday Egyptian pronunciation more closely.

So for a learner:

• ملعقة = the standard spelling
• معلقة = a common Egyptian-style spelling

Both point to the everyday Egyptian word for spoon, pronounced roughly like maʿla’a / maʿlaʔa.

So this sentence is showing a dialect-friendly Egyptian spelling, not the fully standard one.

A common Egyptian pronunciation is approximately:

• el-maʿla’a fiDDa

A few helpful notes:

• ع is a deep throat sound. English does not really have it.
• The ق in Egyptian Arabic is often pronounced like a glottal stop (a catch in the throat), so the word sounds more like maʿla’a than a full q sound.
• فضة is often pronounced roughly fidda or fiḍḍa, with a heavy / emphatic d sound.

So even if your pronunciation is not perfect yet, aiming for something like el-mahla’a fidda will at least get you started.

Grammatically, فضة is originally a noun meaning silver (the metal).

In this sentence, it is being used as the predicate:

• المعلقة = the spoon
• فضة = silver

So the structure is basically:

• The spoon = silver

This is very natural in Arabic.

English often uses an adjective in a sentence like The spoon is silver, but Arabic can use the material noun directly.

Because فضة and فضية are related, but not exactly the same.

• فضة = silver as a noun, the metal
• فضية = silver-colored / silvery as an adjective

So:

• المعلقة فضة often suggests the spoon is made of silver or simply the spoon is silver
• المعلقة فضية sounds more like the spoon is silver-colored / silvery

In everyday Egyptian Arabic, using فضة directly is very common when talking about the material.

If you want to be extra explicit, you can also say:

• المعلقة من فضة = The spoon is made of silver

Because Arabic normally puts the thing being talked about first, and then the information about it after.

So the order is:

• المعلقة = what we are talking about
• فضة = what we are saying about it

That is the normal order for this kind of sentence in Arabic.

It may look a bit like adjective order to an English speaker, but here it is better understood as a full sentence, not just a noun plus adjective.

So this is not just silver spoon. It is:

• The spoon is silver

If you wanted a silver spoon as one noun phrase, you would normally say something different, often with an adjective or another structure depending on exactly what you mean.

Yes, المعلقة is grammatically feminine singular.

A big clue is the ending:

• ة = the taa marbuuTa, which very often marks feminine nouns

So معلقة is treated as feminine in grammar.

That matters in many sentences. For example:

• المعلقة كبيرة = The spoon is big

Here كبيرة is feminine to match المعلقة.

In المعلقة فضة, you do not see the usual adjective agreement pattern, because فضة is being used as a noun-like predicate.

Yes, absolutely.

• المعلقة فضة = The spoon is silver
• المعلقة من فضة = The spoon is made of silver

The version with من is more explicit about material.

So:

• فضة by itself is short and natural
• من فضة makes the meaning clearer if you want to stress that it is actually made of silver, not just silver in color

Both are useful, and both are natural depending on context.