الدبوس مع طباشير الترزي.

A common Egyptian pronunciation is ed-dabboos maʿ tabaashiir et-tarzi.

A few useful notes:

• الدبوس is pronounced ed-dabboos, not el-dabboos, because د is a sun letter, so the l of الـ blends into it.
• الترزي is pronounced et-tarzi for the same reason: ت is also a sun letter.
• مع is often said as maʿ or maʿa in connected speech.
• You may also see transliterations like id-dabbuus maʿ ṭabāshiir it-tarzi. Different transliteration systems are normal.

Because Arabic often leaves out the verb to be in the present tense.

So a sentence like الدبوس مع طباشير الترزي naturally means the pin is with the tailor’s chalk without needing a separate word for is.

This is very normal in both Egyptian Arabic and Standard Arabic:

• أنا تعبان = I am tired
• الكتاب هنا = The book is here
• الدبوس مع طباشير الترزي = The pin is with the tailor’s chalk

مع usually means with.

In a sentence like this, it can show:

• physical accompaniment: with
• location/association: together with
• sometimes possession: in the possession of

Here the basic idea is simply that the pin is with or together with the tailor’s chalk.

Because طباشير الترزي is a possession structure called iḍāfa.

In Arabic, possession is usually formed by putting two nouns next to each other:

• طباشير الترزي
• literally: chalk the-tailor
• naturally: the tailor’s chalk

In this structure:

• the first noun usually does not take الـ
• the second noun shows the possessor
• the whole phrase becomes definite if the second noun is definite

So:

• الدبوس = the pin
• طباشير الترزي = the tailor’s chalk

That is why you do not say الطباشير الترزي here.

It often works like a collective or mass noun meaning chalk in general, but it can also refer to pieces of chalk depending on context.

A useful comparison:

• طبشورة = a piece of chalk
• طباشير = chalk / chalk pieces

In this sentence, طباشير الترزي is best understood as the tailor’s chalk as a tool or material, not necessarily as a clearly countable plural in English.

الترزي means the tailor.

It is a very common colloquial word in Egyptian Arabic. It is not the most typical formal Standard Arabic word; in MSA, الخياط is more common for the tailor.

So for a learner of Egyptian Arabic, الترزي is a useful everyday word.

Also, because it starts with ت, the article is pronounced with assimilation:

• written: الترزي
• said: et-tarzi

Yes, this word order is normal.

الدبوس مع طباشير الترزي starts with the thing being talked about, the pin, and then gives information about it, with the tailor’s chalk.

If you changed the order, the focus would change too. For example:

• طباشير الترزي مع الدبوس would shift the topic to the tailor’s chalk
• that would sound more like The tailor’s chalk is with the pin

So the original order is the natural one if the pin is the main topic.

This is a very common issue for learners. Normal Arabic writing usually leaves out most short vowels, and colloquial writing especially does not spell out every pronunciation detail.

So in this sentence, you have to know some things from vocabulary and pronunciation rules:

• دبوس is pronounced dabboos / dabbuus, even though the doubling is not fully shown in ordinary writing
• الـ before د and ت assimilates, so الدبوس becomes ed-dabboos and الترزي becomes et-tarzi
• طباشير is known as tabaashiir

In other words, reading Arabic fluently involves:

1. knowing the word already
2. knowing common sound rules
3. using context

That is completely normal, and every Arabic learner goes through it.