سيخ الشوي عالمنقل.

Yes. In Levantine Arabic, the present-tense verb to be is usually left out.

So سيخ الشوي عالمنقل literally looks like the grilling skewer on the grill, but it naturally means The grilling skewer is on the grill.

If you wanted a past meaning, you would normally add كان.

عالمنقل is a contracted spoken form of على المنقل.

• على = on
• المنقل = the grill / brazier

So عالمنقل means on the grill.

In Levantine, على + الـ very often becomes عالـ in speech.

Because this is an iḍāfa-like noun combination: سيخ + الشوي.

In this kind of structure, the first noun usually does not take الـ, and the second noun determines the definiteness of the whole phrase.

So:

• سيخ الشوي = the grilling skewer / the skewer for grilling

Even though سيخ does not have الـ, the whole expression is still definite because الشوي is definite.

Here الشوي is a noun meaning grilling, roasting, or barbecue.

It comes from the verb شوى = to grill / roast.

So سيخ الشوي is not talking about a skewer that is itself roasted. It means a skewer used for grilling, or more naturally, a barbecue skewer.

Because ش is a sun letter, the ل in الـ is assimilated and not pronounced separately.

So الشوي is pronounced roughly:

ish-shawi or esh-shawi

not al-shawi.

The exact vowel can vary by region, but the important thing is that you hear a doubled sh sound.

منقل usually refers to a charcoal grill, brazier, or barbecue grill.

It often suggests the traditional kind used with charcoal rather than, for example, a modern electric appliance. In many contexts, though, translating it simply as grill is perfectly fine.

A common Levantine-style pronunciation would be roughly:

sīkh ish-shawi ʿal-manʔal

A few notes:

• سيخ = sīkh
• الشوي = ish-shawi / esh-shawi
• عالمنقل = ʿal-manʔal in many urban accents

Some speakers keep q instead of a glottal stop, so you may also hear something closer to manqal.

Yes. على المنقل is the fuller form, and عالمنقل is the common Levantine contraction.

Both mean the same thing, but عالمنقل sounds more natural in everyday speech. In informal writing, people often write the contracted form too.