العازف عزف عالجيتار.

A common Levantine-style pronunciation is:

il-ʿāzif ʿazaf ʿal-jitār

A few helpful notes:

• العازف → il-ʿāzif or el-ʿāzif
• عزف → ʿazaf
• عالجيتار → ʿal-jitār, from على الجيتار

Regional variation matters:

• The ج in جيتار may sound like j in judge in some areas.
• In other Levantine accents, it may sound more like zh in measure.

So you may hear something like ʿal-jitār or ʿal-zhitār.

Because they come from the same root: ع-ز-ف.

That root is connected with playing a musical instrument.

• عازف = player / musician / instrumentalist
• عزف = he played or played in the past tense

This is very common in Arabic: words that look related usually are related.

العازف is a noun, specifically the active participle of the verb عزف.

It means something like:

• the musician
• the player
• the instrumentalist

In this sentence it is:

• masculine
• singular
• definite because of ال

So العازف = the musician.

Yes. عزف is the past tense, third person masculine singular: he played.

Because the subject is العازف, the full idea is:

The musician played ...

Some useful Levantine comparisons:

• عزف = he played
• بيعزف = he plays / he is playing
• عم يعزف = he is playing right now
• رح يعزف = he will play

In informal Levantine writing, very common combinations often get written together.

عالجيتار is basically:

على + الجيتار

which contracts to:

عالـ + جيتار

So عالجيتار means on the guitar.

This kind of contraction is extremely common in spoken Levantine.

Because the verb عزف commonly goes with على before an instrument.

So Arabic expresses it more like:

played on the guitar

That is just the normal Arabic pattern.

You see the same thing with other instruments too:

• عزف عالبيانو = played the piano
• عزف عالعود = played the oud
• عزف عالكمان = played the violin

No. عزف is specifically for playing a musical instrument.

For other kinds of play, Arabic uses different verbs:

• لعب كرة = played soccer
• لعب لعبة = played a game
• عزف عالجيتار = played the guitar

So عزف is much narrower than English play.

It is a loanword, and in everyday Levantine it is completely normal.

So جيتار is the usual colloquial word for guitar.

There is also a more formal Arabic word:

قيثارة

But in everyday Levantine speech, جيتار is much more natural.

Because in Levantine, subject-first order is very common.

So:

العازف عزف عالجيتار

is a very natural colloquial structure: subject + verb + rest.

You could also say:

عزف العازف عالجيتار

and it would be understandable, but it can feel more formal, narrative, or less everyday in many contexts.

The letter ع is one of the hardest Arabic sounds for English speakers.

It appears in all three parts of the sentence:

• العازف
• عزف
• عالجيتار

It is a deep throat sound that English does not really have. It is not the same as a normal vowel, and not the same as a glottal stop.

A practical beginner tip:

• do not replace it with a clear English consonant like a, g, or r
• try to hear it and imitate it gradually
• even an approximate version is okay at first

Being understood matters more than making it perfect immediately.

Because ع and ج are moon letters, not sun letters.

With moon letters, the l of ال is pronounced:

• العازف → il-ʿāzif
• الجيتار → il-jitār

With sun letters, the l sound disappears into the next consonant.

For example:

• الشمس is pronounced more like ish-shams

So in your sentence, the l is pronounced normally.

Because both nouns are definite here.

• العازف = the musician
• الجيتار = the guitar

In Arabic, this is very normal when talking about a specific person and a specific instrument, or when the context makes them identifiable.

Also, with instruments, Arabic often uses the definite form in places where English might or might not.

You would change the noun and the verb:

العازفة عزفت عالجيتار

That means the female musician played the guitar.

So:

• العازف = the male musician
• العازفة = the female musician
• عزف = he played
• عزفت = she played

Because this is Levantine Arabic, not formal written Standard Arabic.

In everyday Levantine speech:

• case endings are not used
• final short vowels that you may learn in grammar books are usually absent

So the sentence is naturally short and streamlined:

العازف عزف عالجيتار

That is exactly what you would expect in normal spoken Levantine.