البطولة بلشت اليوم.

بلشت is the Levantine past-tense form of the verb بلّش / يبلّش, which means to start / to begin.

In this sentence, it means started.

A useful comparison:

• Levantine: بلشت
• Formal / MSA equivalent: بدأت

So this is a very everyday, spoken-Levantine way to say that something began.

Because البطولة is a feminine singular noun, and the verb agrees with it.

Since بطولة ends in ـة, it is grammatically feminine. So the verb takes the feminine past form:

• بلش = he started
• بلشت = she/it started

Here, البطولة is the subject, so بلشت means it started referring to the championship/tournament.

Yes. In Levantine, بلشت can mean either:

• I started
• she started
• it started (for a feminine noun)

The context tells you which one is meant.

In this sentence, because you already have البطولة as the subject, the meaning is clearly the championship started.

So if you saw بلشت اليوم by itself, it could be ambiguous. But البطولة بلشت اليوم is not.

This sentence uses a very common spoken word order: subject + verb + time expression.

So:

• البطولة = the championship
• بلشت = started
• اليوم = today

Putting البطولة first makes it the topic of the sentence.

You could also say:

• بلشت البطولة اليوم

That is also natural in Levantine. The meaning stays basically the same, though the flow or emphasis can feel slightly different depending on context.

In Arabic, اليوم often means today as a fixed time expression.

So even though it literally looks like the day, in actual usage it very commonly means today.

Compare:

• اليوم = today
• هاليوم or other regional expressions may also be heard, but اليوم is extremely common and standard in everyday speech.

So this is completely normal Arabic usage, not something unusual about this sentence.

Because the speaker means that the starting already happened earlier today.

So بلشت اليوم means:

• it started today
• not it starts today in a scheduled/future sense

If you wanted to say it starts today as a present or scheduled event, Levantine would often use the present:

• البطولة بتبلّش اليوم = the championship starts today

So:

• بلشت اليوم = it already started today
• بتبلّش اليوم = it starts today / is starting today

It is colloquial Levantine Arabic, not formal written Arabic.

The biggest clue is بلشت, which is spoken dialect.

A formal / MSA version would be something like:

• بدأت البطولة اليوم

So if you are speaking naturally in Levantine, البطولة بلشت اليوم sounds good and everyday. If you are writing formally, you would normally switch to MSA.

A common pronunciation would be roughly:

el-baṭūle ballashet il-yōm

A few notes:

• الـ in Levantine is often pronounced el- or il-
• بطولة is commonly pronounced something like baṭūle
• بلشت is pronounced with a doubled l sound, even if that is not shown clearly in casual spelling
• اليوم is commonly il-yōm or el-yōm

Exact vowels vary by country and region, but that general pronunciation is a good guide.

In everyday Arabic writing, especially in dialect, people usually do not write all short vowels or pronunciation marks.

The verb comes from بلّش, where the ل is doubled. In casual writing, people often just write:

• بلش
• بلشت

even though the pronunciation still has that doubled consonant.

So the spelling is normal for informal Arabic writing, and learners should not expect dialect writing to show every pronunciation detail.

Yes. بطولة can have more than one meaning depending on context, such as:

• championship
• tournament
• sometimes heroism

In a sentence like this, the surrounding context usually makes the intended meaning obvious. If the topic is sports or competition, البطولة will usually mean something like the championship or the tournament.