لوحة الإنذار قرب نظام الرش الآلي.

In Arabic, the present-tense to be is usually omitted.

So لوحة الإنذار قرب نظام الرش الآلي literally looks like:

• alarm panel
• near
• automatic sprinkler system

But it naturally means The alarm panel is near the automatic sprinkler system.

This is very common in Modern Standard Arabic, especially in signs, labels, maps, and building descriptions.

It can be understood either way, but it sounds especially natural as a sign, label, or map-style location description.

Arabic often uses short noun phrases like this in practical contexts. So even without a verb, it works well as a complete idea: it tells you where something is.

This is an iḍāfa construction, often called a construct phrase.

It is made of:

• لوحة = panel / board / plate
• الإنذار = the alarm / warning

Together, لوحة الإنذار means the alarm panel or literally the panel of the alarm.

A key rule of iḍāfa:

• the first noun usually does not take الـ
• the second noun can make the whole phrase definite

So لوحة الإنذار is definite even though لوحة itself does not have الـ.

Because in an iḍāfa construction, the first noun normally does not take الـ.

So Arabic says:

• لوحة الإنذار = the alarm panel

not:

• اللوحة الإنذار ❌

The definiteness comes from الإنذار, and that makes the whole phrase definite.

Because it ends in ة (tāʾ marbūṭa).

When a word ending in ة is said by itself, it is often pronounced like -a:

• لوحة = lawḥa

But when it is followed as part of an iḍāfa construction, the t sound appears:

• لوحة الإنذار = lawḥat al-indhār

This is a very common pattern in Arabic.

Here قرب means near or close to.

It is often treated like a preposition-like adverb of place. In practice, you can think of it as meaning near and being followed directly by a noun phrase:

• قرب نظام الرش الآلي = near the automatic sprinkler system

So you do not need من after قرب in this structure.

Compare:

• قربَ المدرسةِ = near the school
• بالقرب من المدرسة = near the school

Both are possible patterns, but this sentence uses the shorter one.

This part also contains an iḍāfa plus an adjective.

Breakdown:

• نظام = system
• الرش = the spraying / sprinkling
• الآلي = automatic / automated

So:

• نظام الرش = the sprinkler system / the spraying system
• نظام الرش الآلي = the automatic sprinkler system

The adjective الآلي comes after the whole iḍāfa phrase and describes it.

In normal grammatical analysis, الآلي describes the whole phrase headed by نظام, so:

• نظام الرش الآلي = the automatic sprinkler system

Even though الآلي comes right after الرش, adjectives after an iḍāfa usually describe the head noun of the whole phrase.

So the main idea is:

• system = the thing being described
• automatic = its adjective

Because the sentence refers to specific, identifiable things:

• الإنذار = the alarm
• الرش = the sprinkling / sprinkler
• الآلي = the automatic → really just automatic, but it is definite to match the noun phrase it describes

Also remember:

• لوحة الإنذار is definite because of the iḍāfa
• نظام الرش is also definite because of the iḍāfa
• الآلي must match that definiteness

So the definiteness spreads through the phrase in a way that is very typical in Arabic.

A fully vocalized version could be:

لَوْحَةُ الْإِنْذَارِ قُرْبَ نِظَامِ الرَّشِّ الْآلِيِّ

The endings show the grammatical roles, but in normal writing—especially on signs or labels—these short vowels are usually omitted.

So in everyday text, you would normally just see:

لوحة الإنذار قرب نظام الرش الآلي

A helpful approximation is:

lawḥat al-indhār qurb niẓām ar-rashsh al-āliyy

A few pronunciation notes:

• ح in لوحة is a stronger, throatier h
• ذ in الإنذار sounds like th in this
• ق in قرب is a deep q sound, not exactly English k
• In الرش, the الـ assimilates because ر is a sun letter, so it sounds like ar-rashsh, not al-rash
• ة in لوحة is pronounced t here because of the iḍāfa

Yes. لوحة can mean different things depending on context, such as:

• panel
• board
• sign
• plate
• plaque

In this sentence, because it is connected to الإنذار, the most natural meaning is alarm panel rather than something like painting or display board.