خريطة المسار هنا.

Because Arabic usually leaves out the present-tense verb to be.

So:

خريطة المسار هنا

literally looks like the route map here, but in natural English it means:

• The route map is here.
• Here is the route map.

This is called a nominal sentence in Arabic. In the present tense, Arabic often does not say is / am / are.

If you want another tense, then Arabic uses a verb:

• كانت خريطةُ المسار هنا = The route map was here
• ستكون خريطةُ المسار هنا = The route map will be here

It means the route map or more literally the map of the route/path.

It is made of two nouns:

• خريطة = map
• المسار = the route / the path / the course

Together they form a structure called iḍāfa (the Arabic X of Y structure).

So:

• خريطة المسار = map of the route
• natural English: the route map

Because this is an iḍāfa construction.

In an iḍāfa:

1. the first noun does not take الـ
2. the first noun also does not take tanwīn
3. the second noun can be definite or indefinite
4. the whole phrase gets its definiteness from the second noun

So here:

• خريطة = first noun in the iḍāfa
• المسار = second noun, and it is definite because of الـ

That makes the whole phrase definite:

• خريطة المسار = the route map

You would not say:

• الخريطة المسار for this meaning
• خريطةٌ المسار

Those would break the normal iḍāfa pattern.

Yes. This is a very common learner question.

When ة (tāʾ marbūṭa) is at the end of a word by itself, it is usually pronounced like -a in pause:

• خريطة = kharīṭa

But when that word is followed by another word in an iḍāfa, the ة is pronounced as t:

• خريطة المسار = kharīṭat al-masār

So the pronunciation is roughly:

• kha-REE-tat al-ma-SAAR

A few sound notes:

• خ is like the ch in Scottish loch or German Bach
• ط is a heavy/emphatic t
• مسار has a long ā sound

Yes, it can come at the beginning.

Your sentence:

• خريطة المسار هنا

means The route map is here.

But Arabic can also say:

• هنا خريطةُ المسار

which can also mean Here is the route map.

The difference is mainly one of focus and style:

• خريطة المسار هنا puts the topic first: The route map is here.
• هنا خريطة المسار starts with here, so it feels more like Here is...

Both are normal, and context decides which sounds better.

In fully vocalized formal Arabic, it would be:

خريطةُ المسارِ هنا

Here is why:

• خريطةُ = nominative, because it is the subject/topic of the nominal sentence
• المسارِ = genitive, because it is the second noun in an iḍāfa
• هنا = an adverb of place, and it does not take a regular case ending like nouns do

So in careful grammar terms:

• خريطةُ = mubtadaʾ (subject/topic)
• هنا = predicate of place
• المسارِ = genitive because of iḍāfa

In normal Arabic writing, these short vowels are usually not written, so you normally just see:

خريطة المسار هنا

Yes, خريطة is a feminine noun. You can tell from the ة at the end.

In this particular sentence, it does not change much, because there is no adjective or verb that has to show feminine agreement in the present tense.

But it matters in other sentences, for example:

• خريطةُ المسارِ واضحةٌ = The route map is clear
• هذه خريطةُ المسار = This is the route map

Here, words like واضحة and هذه match the feminine noun خريطة.

Yes, more or less.

A very literal breakdown is:

• خريطة = map
• المسار = the route
• هنا = here

So word-for-word it is something like:

• map of the route here

But that is not natural English. Because Arabic omits the present-tense is, the normal English translation is:

• The route map is here
• Here is the route map

So the literal structure is useful for learning, but the natural meaning is the important part.

Yes. المسار can mean several related things depending on context, such as:

• route
• path
• course
• track
• trajectory

So خريطة المسار could mean:

• route map
• path map
• map of the course
• track map

The exact English choice depends on the situation. For example:

• for travel: route map
• for movement or navigation: path
• for racing: possibly track
• for a process or plan: maybe course or path

Yes. Both are good English translations.

Arabic often allows a sentence like this to be translated in more than one natural way, because English has to choose a wording with is and a particular word order.

So:

• خريطة المسار هنا

can naturally be rendered as:

• The route map is here
• Here is the route map

The exact best translation depends on context and what is being emphasized.