هاد القميص لونه فاتح وهو قطني.

In Levantine Arabic, when a demonstrative like هاد (this) comes before a noun, the noun is usually definite, so it takes الـ.

So:

• هاد القميص = this shirt
• not usually هاد قميص in normal usage

This is different from English, where this shirt has no separate the. In Levantine, the definiteness is still shown on the noun.

You may also hear it pronounced as one chunk:

• هالقميص = this shirt

That is extremely common in speech.

Yes. هاد is a very common Levantine word meaning this.

Some related forms:

• هاد = this
• هاي = this (often with feminine nouns)
• هَدول / هالـ... = these

In everyday Levantine, هاد is one of the most common ways to say this. It is dialectal, not formal Modern Standard Arabic.

القميص means the shirt.

A few pronunciation notes:

• In careful/formal Arabic, it is al-qamīṣ
• In Levantine, the first vowel is often more like il or el, so learners often hear something like il-qamīṣ
• In some urban Levantine varieties, ق may sound like a glottal stop, so it may sound closer to 'amīṣ

So depending on region, you may hear different pronunciations, but the meaning is the same.

Because Arabic very often expresses color this way:

• لونه فاتح
• literally: its color is light

This is a very natural Arabic pattern. The structure is:

• لون = color
• ـه = his/its

So لونه literally means its color.

This kind of wording is extremely common in Arabic when describing color or appearance.

لونه = لون + ـه

Breakdown:

• لون = color
• ـه = his / its

So:

• لونه = its color or his color

In this sentence, it refers to the shirt, so it means its color.

This attached pronoun is very common in Arabic:

• لوني = my color
• لونك = your color
• لونه = his/its color
• لونها = her/its color

فاتح is the adjective meaning light (as in light-colored, not not heavy).

In لونه فاتح, the adjective agrees with لون (color), which is masculine singular. That is why it appears as:

• فاتح = masculine singular

If the noun being described were feminine, you would often see:

• فاتحة = feminine singular

For example:

• البلوزة لونها فاتح = The blouse’s color is light

Even though English says light-colored, Arabic often just uses light after color.

وهو means and it is.

So the sentence is:

• هاد القميص لونه فاتح وهو قطني
• This shirt is light-colored, and it’s cotton.

Why use هو?

Because Arabic often uses an explicit pronoun to connect two descriptive clauses clearly:

• وهو قطني = and it is cotton

Could you drop هو in some conversational contexts? Sometimes yes, especially in casual speech, but وهو is very natural and clear here.

قطني means cotton as an adjective, so in natural English it usually means:

• made of cotton
• cotton

It comes from قطن = cotton, and قطني is an adjective formed from it.

So:

• قميص قطني = a cotton shirt
• وهو قطني = and it is cotton / and it is made of cotton

That -ي is part of a very common Arabic adjective pattern often called the nisba ending.

It turns a noun into an adjective:

• قطن = cotton
• قطني = cotton / cotton-made / cotton-related

Other examples:

• لبنان = Lebanon → لبناني = Lebanese
• صيف = summer → صيفي = summer, summery
• رسمي from رسم in some patterns = official/formal

So قطني is the normal adjective meaning cotton.

Because قميص (shirt) is a masculine noun, so the adjective is masculine too:

• قميص قطني = a cotton shirt

If the noun were feminine, the adjective would usually be feminine:

• بلوزة قطنية = a cotton blouse

In your sentence, the second clause وهو قطني still refers to القميص, which is masculine, so قطني is correct.

Yes, هو is the same word that often means he, but in Arabic it is also used for masculine singular nouns, including objects.

Since قميص is grammatically masculine, Arabic refers back to it with هو.

So in this sentence:

• هو does not mean a male person
• it means it, referring to the shirt

This is very normal in Arabic, because every noun has grammatical gender.

Yes, with some differences:

• القميص لونه فاتح = The shirt is light-colored
• القميص لونه فاتح وقطني may be understood as The shirt is light-colored and cotton

But وهو قطني sounds clearer and more complete, because it gives the second description in a full clause.

And if you remove هاد, you lose the meaning this:

• هاد القميص = this shirt
• القميص = the shirt

So the original sentence is more specific and natural for this shirt.

It is basically Levantine dialect, even though it is written in normal Arabic script.

Clues that it is dialectal:

• هاد for this is dialectal
• the whole phrasing sounds natural in spoken Levantine

A more formal Modern Standard Arabic version would be something like:

• هذا القميص لونه فاتح وهو قطني

So this sentence is the kind of Arabic you might actually hear in everyday conversation in the Levant.

The sentence has two linked parts:

1. هاد القميص لونه فاتح

   • هاد القميص = this shirt
   • لونه فاتح = its color is light

2. وهو قطني

   • و = and
   • هو = it
   • قطني = cotton / made of cotton

So the overall pattern is:

• [this noun] + [its color is ...] + and + [it is ...]

This kind of structure is very common in Arabic description.