صاحبي بيحمص حبوب القهوة.

A careful transliteration is ṣāḥbi biyḥammaṣ ḥubūb il-ʾahwa.

A rough English-friendly guide is:

SAAH-bi biy-HAM-maṣ ḥo-BOOB il-AH-wa

A few pronunciation notes:

• ص in صاحبي is a heavier, emphatic s
• ح in صاحبي and بيحمص is a strong breathy h
• ق in القهوة is usually pronounced as a glottal stop in Egyptian, so قهوة sounds like ʾahwa
• ال is usually pronounced il or el in Egyptian speech

صاحبي means my friend or my buddy.

It is made from:

• صاحب = friend / companion / buddy
• ـي = my

So:

• صاحب = friend
• صاحبي = my friend

In everyday Egyptian, صاحبي usually refers to a male friend. For a female friend, you would normally say صاحبتي.

In Egyptian Arabic, بـ is a very common marker for the present tense.

So:

• يحمّص = he roasts
• بيحمّص = he roasts / he is roasting

This بـ is one of the big differences between Egyptian Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic. In everyday Egyptian, present-tense verbs often appear with بـ.

It can mean either one, depending on context.

So the sentence can mean:

• My friend roasts coffee beans
• My friend is roasting coffee beans

Egyptian Arabic often uses the same present form for both the simple present and the present continuous. If the speaker wants to make right now extra clear, they might add a word like دلوقتي:

• صاحبي بيحمّص حبوب القهوة دلوقتي = My friend is roasting coffee beans now

Because everyday Arabic spelling usually leaves out short vowels and other pronunciation marks.

The full form is بيحمّص, with a shadda on م, which shows that the m is doubled.

So even if you see:

• بيحمص

it is often pronounced:

• بيحمّص
• biyḥammaṣ

This comes from the verb حمّص, meaning to roast or to toast.

Literally, it means the beans of the coffee, which is how Arabic expresses coffee beans.

It breaks down like this:

• حبوب = beans / grains
• القهوة = the coffee

Together:

• حبوب القهوة = coffee beans

This is a very common Arabic structure: noun + noun, where the second noun explains what kind of thing the first noun is.

Because this is an iḍāfa structure, often called a genitive construction.

In this structure:

• the first noun usually does not take ال
• the second noun shows the relationship

So:

• حبوب القهوة = the coffee’s beans / coffee beans

Even though حبوب has no ال, the whole phrase can still be definite because القهوة is definite.

This is normal Arabic grammar. English does not work the same way, so it often feels unusual at first.

Yes. This sentence uses a very common Egyptian word order:

• صاحبي = subject
• بيحمّص = verb
• حبوب القهوة = object

So it is:

• Subject + Verb + Object

This is extremely common in spoken Egyptian Arabic.

You may also hear other orders in Arabic, but صاحبي بيحمص حبوب القهوة sounds very natural and everyday.

Because Egyptian Arabic often changes ق into a glottal stop.

So:

• Modern Standard Arabic: qahwa
• Egyptian Arabic: ʾahwa or ahwa

Also, ال is usually pronounced el or il, so:

• القهوة is commonly said as el-ahwa or il-ahwa

This is one of the most noticeable pronunciation differences between Egyptian Arabic and Standard Arabic.

Yes, but the tone changes.

• صاحبي sounds natural, casual, and very Egyptian
• صديقي sounds more formal or more like Modern Standard Arabic

So in everyday conversation, صاحبي is the more natural choice.

A common Egyptian negative version is:

صاحبي مش بيحمّص حبوب القهوة.

This means:

My friend does not roast coffee beans
or
My friend is not roasting coffee beans

Here, مش is used to negate the present-tense verb phrase in everyday Egyptian Arabic.