الترزي خيط العروة جنب الزرار.

A natural Cairene-style pronunciation is:

et-tarzi khayyat el-ʿorwa gamb ez-zorar

A rough breakdown:

• الترزي → et-tarzi
• خيط → khayyat
• العروة → el-ʿorwa
• جنب → gamb
• الزرار → ez-zorar

You may hear small vowel differences depending on the speaker.

This is because of sun letters.

In Arabic, when الـ comes before certain consonants, the l sound is not pronounced, and the next consonant is doubled in speech.

Here:

• ت in الترزي is a sun letter, so الترزي is pronounced et-tarzi
• ز in الزرار is also a sun letter, so الزرار is pronounced ez-zorar

But the spelling usually stays the same.

That is a very common feature of Egyptian Arabic.

In Cairene Egyptian, ج is usually pronounced like the g in go, not like the j sound in English job.

So:

• جنب is commonly pronounced gamb or sometimes something close to genb
• In more formal or non-Egyptian pronunciation, you might expect something closer to janb

This g sound is one of the clearest markers of Egyptian speech.

Because Arabic writing often leaves out short vowels, the same spelling can represent more than one word.

Here, خيط is read as the verb khayyat = he sewed / stitched.

But a noun meaning thread can also be written in a very similar way in normal undiacritized Arabic text.

You figure it out from context and sentence position:

• الترزي = the subject
• خيط = the action
• العروة = the object

So in this sentence, it clearly works as a verb.

It is a past-tense verb, 3rd person masculine singular:

خيط = he sewed / he stitched

It matches the subject الترزي, which is singular and masculine.

So the structure is basically:

• الترزي = the tailor
• خيط = sewed
• العروة = the buttonhole

Because that is very normal in spoken Egyptian Arabic.

This sentence is:

• الترزي = subject
• خيط = verb
• العروة = object

So the pattern is SVO.

In Standard Arabic, learners often see verb-first sentences more often, but everyday Egyptian commonly uses subject-first order, especially in simple statements like this one.

جنب means beside / next to.

Here it introduces a location phrase:

جنب الزرار = next to the button / buttons

So the sentence first says what the tailor did, and then adds where:

• خيط العروة = he sewed the buttonhole
• جنب الزرار = next to the button

You do not need an extra preposition like في here.

A common Egyptian pronunciation is el-ʿorwa.

Two things matter here:

• ع is the letter ʿayn, a deep throat sound with no exact English equivalent
• the final ة is pronounced -a in normal Egyptian speech, so ʿorwa, not ʿorwat

If ع is hard at first, that is normal. Many English speakers need time to get comfortable with it.

This is a good question, because زرار can feel a little loose in colloquial Egyptian.

Often, زرار is used as a plural or collective-type word for buttons. But in real clothing contexts, English may translate it as button if only one specific button is relevant.

So in practice, context tells you whether the meaning is:

• button
• buttons
• or even the button area / fastening area in a garment context

You may also learn زر as a clearly singular form.

Because they are all definite here:

• الترزي = the tailor
• العروة = the buttonhole
• الزرار = the button / buttons

Arabic does not have a separate word for a/an, so definiteness is shown mainly by adding الـ.

If you remove الـ, the sentence becomes less specific, more like:

• a tailor
• a buttonhole
• a button / buttons

So the original sentence sounds like it is talking about specific, known items.