الدواسة تحت دولاب الفخار.

In Egyptian Arabic, the present-tense verb to be is usually left out.

So الدواسة تحت دولاب الفخار literally looks like:

• الدواسة = the pedal
• تحت دولاب الفخار = under the pottery wheel

But it means The pedal is under the pottery wheel.

This is very normal in Arabic. If you wanted a past meaning, then a verb would appear, for example كانت = was.

Because this is an iḍāfa (construct phrase), a very common Arabic pattern.

دولاب الفخار literally means wheel of pottery or pottery wheel.

In an iḍāfa:

• the first noun usually does not take الـ
• the second noun shows whether the whole phrase is definite

So:

• دولاب الفخار = the pottery wheel
• not الدولاب الفخار for this meaning

That is one of the most important noun patterns in Arabic.

No. الفخار here is a noun, not an adjective.

So this is not:

• noun + adjective

It is:

• noun + noun in an iḍāfa construction

Literally:

• دولاب = wheel
• الفخار = pottery / earthenware

So دولاب الفخار means pottery wheel or more literally wheel of pottery.

If it were an adjective, it would behave differently and agree in definiteness and gender.

There are two reasons learners often notice here:

1. الفخار is being used as a definite/general category noun, like pottery as a known type of thing.
2. In an iḍāfa, the definiteness of the second noun makes the whole phrase definite.

So دولاب الفخار is understood as the pottery wheel, not just a pottery wheel.

Arabic often uses الـ with general categories in places where English would not use the.

الدواسة means a pedal, especially something pressed with the foot.

Depending on context, it can also suggest a treadle or foot-operated part of a machine.

In this sentence, it most naturally means the foot pedal associated with the pottery wheel setup.

No. دولاب is a flexible word in Egyptian Arabic, and its meaning depends a lot on context.

It can mean things like:

• wheel
• tire
• cabinet / wardrobe

Here, because of الفخار, it clearly means wheel: specifically a pottery wheel.

So the context tells you which meaning is intended.

A natural Egyptian-style pronunciation would be:

ed-dawwāsa taḥt dolāb el-faḵḵār

A few useful notes:

• الدواسة is pronounced ed-dawwāsa, not el-dawwāsa, because د is a sun letter, so the l sound of الـ assimilates.
• الفخار is pronounced el-faḵḵār, because ف is not a sun letter, so the l stays.
• خ sounds like the ch in Scottish loch or German Bach.

تحت is a preposition meaning under or beneath.

Just like English under, it comes before the thing it relates to:

• تحت دولاب الفخار = under the pottery wheel

So the sentence structure is:

• الدواسة = subject/topic
• تحت دولاب الفخار = location phrase

This is a very common way to say where something is.

Yes, but there is some flexibility.

The most neutral order is:

• الدواسة تحت دولاب الفخار
• The pedal is under the pottery wheel

This starts with the thing you are talking about, then gives its location.

You can move the location phrase forward for emphasis in some contexts, but the version given is the most straightforward and natural for a learner to use.

Yes. الدواسة is grammatically feminine, which you can often guess from the ـة ending.

In this sentence, you do not see any visible agreement because there is no adjective and no expressed present-tense to be verb.

But if you added an adjective, it would show feminine agreement, for example:

• الدواسة كبيرة = the pedal is big

So yes, it is feminine, and that matters in other sentence types.