العجين والطحين في وعاء الخلط.

In Arabic, especially in the present tense, a sentence often does not need a word for is/are.

So:

العجين والطحين في وعاء الخلط.

literally looks like:

the dough and the flour in the mixing bowl

but naturally means:

The dough and the flour are in the mixing bowl.

This is a very common Arabic pattern called a nominal sentence.
Here, في وعاء الخلط functions as the predicate, giving the location.

They are two different food-related nouns:

• العجين = the dough
• الطحين = the flour

So طحين is flour in its dry powdered form, while عجين is dough after mixing.

That difference is important because English learners sometimes confuse the two when reading cooking vocabulary.

الـ is the Arabic definite article, equivalent to the.

So:

• عجين = dough
• العجين = the dough

and:

• طحين = flour
• الطحين = the flour

In context, Arabic often uses الـ where English might still say just dough or flour, especially when talking about known items in a recipe, picture, or situation.

So even if the translation shown to the learner is simply dough and flour, the Arabic with الـ is completely normal.

Because وعاء الخلط is an iḍāfa construction, often called a possessive or noun-linking structure.

In an iḍāfa:

• the first noun does not take الـ
• the second noun determines whether the whole phrase is definite

So:

• وعاء = bowl/container
• الخلط = the mixing / the act of mixing

Together:

وعاء الخلط = the mixing bowl
literally: bowl of the mixing

Even though وعاء has no الـ, the whole phrase is definite because the second noun الخلط is definite.

الخلط comes from the root related to mixing, from the verb خلط = to mix.

Here الخلط is a verbal noun, so it means something like:

• mixing
• the act of mixing

So وعاء الخلط literally means the bowl of mixing, which is the natural Arabic way to say mixing bowl.

Yes. It applies to the whole compound subject:

العجين والطحين = the dough and the flour

and then:

في وعاء الخلط = in the mixing bowl

So the full meaning is:

The dough and the flour are in the mixing bowl.

The prepositional phrase is not just describing the second noun; it gives the location of both items together.

In fully vocalized MSA, it would typically be:

العجينُ والطحينُ في وعاءِ الخلطِ

Here is why:

• العجينُ: nominative
• الطحينُ: also nominative, because it is joined to the first noun with و
• وعاءِ: genitive after the preposition في
• الخلطِ: genitive because it is the second part of the iḍāfa

In everyday speech and in much spoken MSA, these endings are often not pronounced clearly.

Usually, no. The ل of الـ is assimilated here because ط is a sun letter.

So الطحين is pronounced approximately:

aṭ-ṭaḥīn

not:

al-taḥīn

This is why in the full phrase:

العجين والطحين

you will hear something like:

al-ʿajīn waṭ-ṭaḥīn

The doubled ṭ sound is important.

Yes, depending on context, that can be a natural English translation.

Arabic often uses this kind of structure where English might choose either:

• The dough and the flour are in the mixing bowl or
• There is dough and flour in the mixing bowl

The Arabic sentence itself focuses on the nouns and their location, without needing a separate word for there is/there are. The best English translation depends on the situation.