الحمام لازم يتنضف قبل ما الضيوف يجوا.

Yes, الحمام can mean either the bathroom or pigeons/doves in Arabic.

In this sentence, the context makes the bathroom the natural meaning:

الحمام لازم يتنضف قبل ما الضيوف يجوا = The bathroom has to be cleaned before the guests come.

Since it talks about cleaning something before guests arrive, bathroom is the obvious interpretation. If someone said this with no context at all, a learner might briefly notice the ambiguity, but native speakers rely on context very naturally.

لازم means must, have to, or need to.

So:

الحمام لازم يتنضف literally means something like: The bathroom must get cleaned or more naturally: The bathroom has to be cleaned.

In Egyptian Arabic, لازم is extremely common for expressing necessity. It does not change for gender or number here, so it is a very useful word to learn.

Examples:

• لازم أروح = I have to go
• لازم نذاكر = We need to study
• لازم البيت يتنضف = The house has to be cleaned

يتنضف comes from the verb ينضف / يتنضف, related to cleaning. In this sentence, it gives the sense of be cleaned or get cleaned, not clean something.

So:

• ننضف الحمام = we clean the bathroom
• الحمام يتنضف = the bathroom gets cleaned / is cleaned

This is why the sentence sounds natural as: The bathroom has to be cleaned

It is a very common Egyptian way to express something like a passive meaning without using a formal passive structure.

It has a passive-like meaning, yes, but in Egyptian Arabic people often express this idea with verbs like يتنضف rather than with a formal passive construction.

So instead of focusing too much on whether it is technically passive, it is more helpful to understand its function here:

الحمام لازم يتنضف = The bathroom needs to be cleaned

A learner can think of يتنضف here as get cleaned.

قبل ما means before when followed by a verb.

Here:

• قبل = before
• ما helps connect it to the following verb phrase

So:

قبل ما الضيوف يجوا = before the guests come

This is a very common pattern in Egyptian Arabic:

• قبل ما أنام = before I sleep
• قبل ما نخرج = before we go out
• قبل ما هو يوصل = before he arrives

If a verb comes after before, قبل ما is the normal expression to learn.

يجوا is the Egyptian Arabic form for they come.

It comes from the verb جاء / ييجي = to come. In Egyptian Arabic, the plural form is commonly:

• هو ييجي = he comes
• همّا يجوا = they come

So:

الضيوف يجوا = the guests come

The final وا sound marks the plural. In pronunciation, learners may hear something close to yigu or yiguw, depending on the speaker.

That is a very good question. In Egyptian Arabic, بـ is often used with present/habitual verbs:

• بيروح = he goes
• بيجوا = they come

But after words like لازم, قبل ما, عشان, and some other structures, the verb often appears without بـ.

So in this sentence:

قبل ما الضيوف يجوا not قبل ما الضيوف بيجوا

And:

لازم يتنضف not usually لازم بيتنضف

This is normal Egyptian grammar. A useful learner rule is:

• بـ often marks ordinary present/habitual actions
• after certain particles and expressions, the verb often appears without it

Yes, absolutely.

لازم ننضف الحمام قبل ما الضيوف يجوا means: We have to clean the bathroom before the guests come.

The difference is:

• الحمام لازم يتنضف focuses on the bathroom and the fact that it needs cleaning
• لازم ننضف الحمام focuses on we as the people who must do the cleaning

Both are natural. The original sentence sounds a bit less direct about who will do the action, which is often very natural in everyday speech.

Starting with الحمام puts the focus on the bathroom as the thing that needs attention.

So:

الحمام لازم يتنضف feels like: As for the bathroom, it has to be cleaned

This kind of topic-first structure is very common in Arabic, including Egyptian Arabic. It can sound more natural than a more rigid English-style order.

A natural pronunciation would be approximately:

el-ḥammām lāzem yetnaḍḍaf abl ma eḍ-ḍuyūf yigū

A few notes:

• الحمام = el-ḥammām
• لازم = lāzem
• يتنضف = yetnaḍḍaf
• قبل ما = abl ma
• الضيوف = eḍ-ḍuyūf
• يجوا = yigū

The exact pronunciation can vary a little by speaker, but this is a good practical guide.

الـ is the Arabic definite article, equivalent to the in English.

So:

• الحمام = the bathroom
• الضيوف = the guests

In this sentence, both nouns are definite:

• a specific bathroom, probably in the home
• specific guests expected to arrive

Also note that in pronunciation, الـ can change slightly depending on the next sound. For example, الضيوف is pronounced more like ed-dyūf / eḍ-ḍuyūf, because the ل sound assimilates to the following consonant.