الطريق للمطار بياخد تقريبا ساعة اذا ما في زحمة.

A natural Levantine-style pronunciation would be:

eṭ-ṭarīʔ lal-maṭār biyākhod taqrīban sāʿa iza ma fī zaḥme

A few notes:

• الطريق is pronounced more like eṭ-ṭarīʔ, because ط is a sun letter, so the l of ال assimilates.
• بياخد may also sound like byaakhod depending on how you transliterate it.
• تقريبا may be pronounced with a clear q by some speakers, and closer to a glottal stop by others.

It is mainly Levantine colloquial Arabic.

The biggest clues are:

• بياخد for takes
• ما في for there isn’t
• لـ in للمطار instead of the more formal إلى

A more MSA-style sentence would be something like:

يستغرق الطريق إلى المطار تقريبًا ساعة إذا لم يكن هناك ازدحام

So the sentence you gave is much more natural for everyday speech.

بياخد means it takes here.

It comes from the verb أخذ / ياخد, which literally means to take. In Levantine, the prefix بـ often marks the present or habitual tense, so:

• بياخد = he/it takes
• literally: it is taking / it takes

In this sentence, it refers to the trip / the road to the airport taking a certain amount of time.

This is a very common question.

The word طريق can be treated as masculine or feminine, depending on region and speaker. In Levantine, masculine agreement is very common, so:

• الطريق بياخد ساعة = very natural
• الطريق بتاخد ساعة = also possible for some speakers

So بياخد is not a mistake. It reflects a normal spoken usage.

In Levantine Arabic, لـ is often used for direction or destination, where English would use to.

So:

• للمطار = to the airport
• literally, it is لـ + المطار

In more formal Arabic, you would often see إلى المطار, but in everyday speech للمطار is very natural.

تقريبا means approximately, roughly, or about.

In this sentence:

• تقريبا ساعة = about an hour

You can also hear:

• ساعة تقريبا
• حوالي ساعة

All of these are natural. So the position is somewhat flexible in speech.

Because Arabic often uses the bare noun for time expressions when the meaning is already clear.

So:

• بياخد ساعة = it takes an hour

You do not need واحدة unless you want extra emphasis.
Compare:

• ساعة = an hour
• ساعة واحدة = one full hour / exactly one hour

In everyday speech, ساعة by itself is the normal choice.

اذا means if.

It introduces the condition:

• اذا ما في زحمة = if there isn’t traffic

So the sentence has:

• main idea: the trip takes about an hour
• condition: if there isn’t traffic

Also, in casual writing, people often write اذا without the hamza, even though the standard spelling is إذا.

ما في is a very common Levantine structure meaning there isn’t or there aren’t.

Breakdown:

• في = there is / there are
• ما في = there isn’t / there aren’t

So:

• ما في زحمة = there isn’t traffic

This is one of the most useful everyday patterns in Levantine:

• في وقت = there is time
• ما في وقت = there isn’t time
• في مشكلة = there is a problem
• ما في مشكلة = there isn’t a problem / no problem

زحمة literally means crowding, congestion, or jam.

Depending on context, it can mean:

• traffic
• a traffic jam
• crowdedness
• busy congestion in general

In this sentence, because we are talking about the road to the airport, زحمة clearly means traffic.

Because after في / ما في, Arabic usually uses an indefinite noun when you mean there is / there isn’t some ...

So:

• ما في زحمة = there isn’t traffic / there’s no traffic

Using الزحمة would sound more like the traffic, referring to a specific known traffic situation, which is not the normal meaning here.

A rough breakdown is:

• الطريق = the road / the way / the trip
• للمطار = to the airport
• بياخد = takes
• تقريبا = approximately / about
• ساعة = an hour
• اذا ما في زحمة = if there isn’t traffic

So the structure is very close to:

The road/trip to the airport takes about an hour if there isn’t traffic.

Yes. A few natural alternatives are:

• الطريق عالمطار بياخد حوالي ساعة إذا ما في زحمة
• للمطار بياخد تقريبًا ساعة إذا ما في زحمة
• الطريق للمطار بدها تقريبًا ساعة إذا ما في زحمة

In the last one, بدها literally means it needs, but it is often used in Levantine to mean it takes when talking about time.