الدرز قرب الحاشية.

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

So الدرز قرب الحاشية literally looks like the seam near the edge/margin, but it means The seam is near the edge/margin.

This is a very common Arabic pattern called a nominal sentence:

• الدرز = the seam
• قرب الحاشية = near the edge/margin

If you wanted a past-tense version, then Arabic would normally use a verb such as كان:

• كان الدرز قرب الحاشية = The seam was near the edge/margin

قرب here is often best understood as a noun of location/proximity that functions like an adverb: near / near to / in the vicinity of.

In grammar terms, it is commonly treated as a ظرف مكان (an adverbial expression of place). It is followed by a noun in the genitive.

So:

• قرب الحاشية = near the margin/edge

English speakers often want to label it simply as a preposition because that is the easiest translation, and that is fine for practical purposes. But grammatically, Arabic often analyzes it a bit differently.

Because قرب is followed by a noun that completes its meaning, and that following noun is put in the genitive.

So:

• قربَ الحاشيةِ

Here:

• قربَ is the location expression
• الحاشيةِ is the noun attached to it, and it takes the genitive

This is similar to how some other Arabic location words work.

A fully vocalized version would normally be:

الدَّرْزُ قُرْبَ الحاشِيَةِ

Breakdown:

• الدَّرْزُ = nominative, because it is the subject/topic of the nominal sentence
• قُرْبَ = accusative, because it is functioning as an adverbial expression of place
• الحاشِيَةِ = genitive, because it follows قرب

In everyday Arabic writing, these short vowels are usually omitted, so you normally see:

• الدرز قرب الحاشية

In careful pronunciation, it is pronounced ad-darz, not al-darz.

That is because د is a sun letter. When ال comes before a sun letter, the ل sound assimilates into the next consonant.

So:

• الدرز → ad-darz

But:

• الحاشية begins with ح, which is a moon letter
• so it is pronounced al-ḥāshiyah

So the whole sentence is approximately:

• ad-darzu qurb al-ḥāshiyati

Because both nouns are definite in this sentence:

• الدرز = the seam
• الحاشية = the margin/edge/border

Arabic uses ال to mark definiteness, like the in English.

If you removed ال, the meaning would become more indefinite:

• درز قرب حاشية = a seam near a margin/edge

That is grammatically possible in some contexts, but it means something less specific.

الحاشية has several related meanings depending on context, including:

• margin
• border
• edge
• fringe
• sometimes even footnote in other contexts

In a sewing or fabric context, it usually refers to something like:

• edge
• border
• margin

So in this sentence, the most natural interpretation is something like:

• The seam is near the edge or
• The seam is near the border/margin

Yes. That is a very natural alternative.

• الدرز قرب الحاشية
• الدرز قريب من الحاشية

Both can mean The seam is near the edge/margin.

The difference is mainly in structure:

• قرب الحاشية uses قرب as a location expression
• قريب من الحاشية uses the adjective قريب (near/close) plus من

For many learners, قريب من feels easier at first because it matches English more clearly:

• close to
• near

It is a nominal sentence.

It begins with a noun:

• الدرز

Then it gives information about that noun:

• قرب الحاشية

So the basic structure is:

• مبتدأ: الدرز
• خبر: قرب الحاشية

This is one of the most common sentence types in Arabic.

The normal, straightforward order here is:

الدرز قرب الحاشية

That is the clearest form for learners.

Arabic does allow some flexibility in word order, but changing it can make the sentence sound marked, literary, or dependent on context. So for normal usage, it is best to keep:

• topic first: الدرز
• location after it: قرب الحاشية

Yes, a few things:

1. No present-tense "is"

   • Arabic says الدرز قرب الحاشية
   • English needs The seam is near the edge

2. قرب is not exactly used like an ordinary English preposition

   • It behaves more like a location noun/adverb in Arabic grammar

3. Pronunciation of ال

   • الدرز is pronounced ad-darz
   • not al-darz

4. Multiple meanings of الحاشية

   • It does not always mean the same thing in every context

So even though the sentence is short, it shows several very common Arabic patterns.