اسلوب الرسام متل اسلوب الفنان التقليدي.

In Levantine Arabic, as in Arabic generally, the present tense of to be is usually not spoken in simple sentences like this.

So:

• اسلوب الرسام متل اسلوب الفنان التقليدي
• literally: the painter’s style like the traditional artist’s style
• natural English: The painter’s style is like the traditional artist’s style

This is called a nominal sentence. In the present tense, Arabic often just puts the two parts next to each other without a separate word for is.

If you wanted was or will be, then Arabic would normally use an actual verb.

متل means like or similar to in Levantine Arabic.

So here:

• متل = like
• اسلوب الرسام متل اسلوب الفنان التقليدي = The painter’s style is like the traditional artist’s style

A very close equivalent in more formal Arabic is مثل. In Levantine speech, متل is extremely common.

Because this is a possessive/construct phrase called an iḍāfa.

In Arabic, when two nouns are put together to mean X of Y or Y’s X, the first noun usually does not take ال.

So:

• اسلوب الرسام = the style of the painter / the painter’s style

Here:

• اسلوب = style
• الرسام = the painter

Even though اسلوب has no ال, the whole phrase is definite because الرسام is definite.

This is very normal Arabic structure.

Yes, word-for-word it looks like style the-painter, but grammatically it means:

• the painter’s style
• or the style of the painter

That is how Arabic possession often works. The possessed thing comes first, and the owner comes second.

More examples:

• بيت الرجل = the man’s house
• لون السيارة = the car’s color
• اسلوب الرسام = the painter’s style

If you say:

• اسلوب الرسام متل الفنان التقليدي

it sounds like the painter’s style is like the traditional artist, which compares a style to a person. That is not the intended meaning.

By repeating اسلوب, the sentence clearly compares style to style:

• اسلوب الرسام متل اسلوب الفنان التقليدي
• The painter’s style is like the traditional artist’s style

Arabic often repeats a noun when English might leave it out.

Because adjectives usually come after the noun in Arabic.

So:

• الفنان التقليدي = the traditional artist

not literally in English order, but in Arabic order:

• the artist traditional

This is completely normal. Also, the adjective agrees with the noun in definiteness, so:

• الفنان = the artist
• التقليدي = the traditional

Both are definite because both have ال.

They are related, but not identical:

• الرسام = the painter
• الفنان = the artist

A رسام is specifically someone who paints or draws. A فنان is a broader word: artist, performer, creative person.

So the sentence is comparing:

• the style of a painter with
• the style of a traditional artist

Depending on context, that may be a little broad or stylistic, but grammatically it works fine.

In both words, ال is followed by a sun letter, so the ل sound is absorbed.

That means:

• الرسام is pronounced roughly ir-rassām or er-rassām
• التقليدي is pronounced roughly it-taqlīdi or et-taqlīdi

You do not usually pronounce them as al-rassām and al-taqlīdi in normal speech.

This happens because:

• ر in الرسام is a sun letter
• ت in التقليدي is a sun letter

A common Levantine-style pronunciation would be something like:

• uslūb ir-rassām mitl uslūb il-fannān it-taʔlīdi
• or ... it-taqlīdi, depending on the speaker

A few notes:

• اسلوب is often pronounced uslūb
• الرسام becomes ir-rassām / er-rassām
• متل is often mitl or metel, depending on region/speaker
• الفنان becomes il-fannān / el-fannān
• التقليدي may be it-taqlīdi or it-taʔlīdi

The ق in تقليدي varies by dialect:

• some speakers keep it as q
• many urban Levantine speakers pronounce it as a glottal stop ʔ

It is best described as Levantine or Levantine-leaning colloquial.

Why?

• متل is strongly colloquial/Levantine
• words like اسلوب, الرسام, الفنان, and التقليدي are common in both Standard Arabic and dialects

So the sentence uses mostly shared vocabulary, but متل makes it sound clearly non-Standard.

In full Standard Arabic, you would more likely see:

• أسلوب الرسام مثل أسلوب الفنان التقليدي

Yes, but the tone changes.

• متل = common in Levantine everyday speech
• مثل = more formal or more Standard Arabic

So:

• اسلوب الرسام متل اسلوب الفنان التقليدي sounds Levantine
• أسلوب الرسام مثل أسلوب الفنان التقليدي sounds more formal/standard

In conversation with Levantine speakers, متل is very natural.

Yes, in standard spelling it is usually written:

• أسلوب

with a hamza on أ.

But in informal writing, texting, subtitles, or dialect writing, people often leave the hamza off and write:

• اسلوب

So both may appear, but:

• أسلوب = more standard spelling
• اسلوب = common informal spelling

This is very common in dialect writing.

No. الفنان التقليدي is not an iḍāfa.

It is a noun + adjective phrase:

• الفنان = the artist
• التقليدي = the traditional

So together:

• الفنان التقليدي = the traditional artist

By contrast, اسلوب الفنان is an iḍāfa:

• اسلوب الفنان = the artist’s style

A quick way to tell the difference:

• If the second word is describing the first, it is probably an adjective
• If the second word is the owner/possessor of the first, it is probably an iḍāfa

No, not in normal Levantine speech.

In Standard Arabic, you might learn case endings such as -u, -a, -i, but in Levantine these are generally not pronounced.

So learners usually hear:

• اسلوب الرسام متل اسلوب الفنان التقليدي

without case endings.

This is one reason spoken Arabic can feel simpler than fully vocalized Standard Arabic.