السلطة دي فيها خيار وطماطم وزيت، ومفيهاش ملح.

دي means this in Egyptian Arabic, and it often comes after the noun.

So:

• السلطة دي = this salad

This is different from English, where this usually comes before the noun. In Egyptian Arabic, noun + دي/ده is very common:

• البنت دي = this girl
• الكتاب ده = this book
• السلطة دي = this salad

Because سلطة is grammatically feminine, it takes دي. A masculine noun would usually take ده.

الـ is the definite article, like the in English.

So:

• سلطة = a salad / salad
• السلطة = the salad
• السلطة دي = this salad

In Egyptian Arabic, when you say this + noun, it is very common to use the noun in its definite form:

• البيت ده = this house
• العربية دي = this car
• السلطة دي = this salad

So السلطة دي is the normal way to say this salad.

Here, فيها literally means in it, but in context it often translates more naturally as it has or it contains.

Breakdown:

• في = in / there is
• ها = it (feminine)

Since السلطة is feminine, ها refers back to the salad.

So:

• السلطة دي فيها خيار
  literally: This salad, in it there is cucumber
  natural English: This salad has cucumber

This is a very common Egyptian Arabic way to talk about contents or ingredients.

Because السلطة is grammatically feminine.

In Egyptian Arabic:

• فيه = in it / it has (for masculine nouns)
• فيها = in it / it has (for feminine nouns)

Since سلطة is feminine, the pronoun must match:

• السلطة دي فيها... = this salad has...
• الطبق ده فيه... = this plate/dish has...

So the -ها ending agrees with سلطة.

مفيهاش means it doesn’t have / there isn’t in it.

It is the negative form of فيها.

Breakdown:

• ما ... ش = a common Egyptian negation pattern
• فيها = in it / it has

So:

• فيها ملح = it has salt
• مفيهاش ملح = it doesn’t have salt

This ma-...-sh negation is extremely common in Egyptian Arabic:

• بيعرف = he knows
• مايعرفش = he doesn’t know

Here it wraps around the whole expression:

• فيها → مفيهاش

The و simply means and.

So:

• ومفيهاش ملح = and it doesn’t have salt

It is attached directly to the next word in writing, which is normal in Arabic. So ومفيهاش is really:

• و
  • مفيهاش

This is very common:

• وجيت = and I came
• وقال = and he said
• ومفيهاش = and it doesn’t have

Arabic often uses و (and) more freely in lists than English does.

So:

• خيار وطماطم وزيت
  literally: cucumber and tomato and oil

In English, we might say cucumber, tomato, and oil, with only one and before the last item. In Arabic, repeating و between items is completely normal.

You may also hear lists with fewer repeated و’s in casual speech, but this version is very natural.

In this sentence, they are best understood as ingredient nouns or mass/collective nouns, not necessarily as one single cucumber or one single tomato.

So:

• خيار = cucumber / cucumbers
• طماطم = tomato / tomatoes
• زيت = oil

When talking about food ingredients, Arabic often uses the basic noun without worrying about whether English would prefer singular or plural.

So فيها خيار وطماطم naturally means something like:

• it has cucumber and tomato
• or more naturally in English, it has cucumbers and tomatoes

depending on context.

Because ملح here means salt as an ingredient, not the salt.

So:

• ملح = salt
• الملح = the salt

In ingredient sentences, Arabic often uses the noun without the definite article:

• فيها زيت = it has oil
• فيها سكر = it has sugar
• مفيهاش ملح = it doesn’t have salt

This works like English mass nouns such as salt, sugar, or water, which often appear without the.

Not directly. Egyptian Arabic often expresses has/contains using a structure like فيه / فيها.

So instead of saying something literally equivalent to the salad has cucumber, Egyptian Arabic says something closer to:

• the salad, in it, there is cucumber

That is why فيها is doing the job that has does in English.

This is a very important pattern to get used to, because it is extremely common in everyday speech.

You would usually change both the demonstrative and the pronoun.

For example:

• السلطة دي فيها خيار = this salad has cucumber
  feminine noun: دي, فيها

If you used a masculine noun like الطبق (the dish/plate), you would say:

• الطبق ده فيه خيار = this dish has cucumber

And the negative would be:

• الطبق ده مفيهوش ملح = this dish doesn’t have salt

So the pattern is roughly:

• feminine: دي / فيها / مفيهاش
• masculine: ده / فيه / مفيهوش

In Egyptian Arabic, السلطة is commonly pronounced something like es-solṭa or is-solṭa.

A few helpful points:

• The الـ becomes assimilated before س, because س is a sun letter
• So you do not pronounce it as al-s...
• Instead, it sounds more like es-s...

So:

• السلطة → es-solṭa

This kind of assimilation happens with many words:

• الشمس → esh-shams
• السكر → es-sukkar

Because this is Egyptian Colloquial Arabic, not Modern Standard Arabic.

In everyday Egyptian speech, words are usually pronounced without the case endings you may see in formal Arabic grammar. So you get:

• السلطة دي فيها خيار وطماطم وزيت، ومفيهاش ملح

instead of a more formal style with case endings.

This is one of the big differences between spoken Arabic and formal written Arabic. Egyptian Arabic is much simpler in this respect.

Yes, but this word order is very natural.

The sentence starts with the topic:

• السلطة دي = this salad

Then it comments on it:

• فيها خيار وطماطم وزيت = has cucumber, tomato, and oil
• ومفيهاش ملح = and doesn’t have salt

This topic + comment style is very common in Egyptian Arabic.

Other phrasings may be possible in conversation, but the sentence as given sounds natural and idiomatic.

A very useful way to read it is:

• السلطة دي = this salad
• فيها = has / contains
• خيار وطماطم وزيت = cucumber, tomato, and oil
• ومفيهاش ملح = and it doesn’t have salt

So even though the literal structure is closer to in it there is, the best natural understanding is:

• This salad has cucumber, tomato, and oil, and it doesn’t have salt.

That is the pattern you will hear all the time in Egyptian Arabic when people describe what food contains.