Gulf Arabic Grammar
...G.2.1. Definite Article ...G.2.2 Personal Pronouns ...G.2.3 Possessive Pronouns ...G.2.4. Possessives with maal- ...G.2.5 Commands and Requests ...G.2.6 Broken Plural ...G.2.7 Plural -aat ...G.2.8 Plural -iin ...G.2.9 Plural -iyya ...G.3.1 The Construct State - iDaafat ...G.3.2 The Dual Form ...G.3.3 Adjectives ...G.3.4 Personal Pronoun Suffixes ...G.3.5 Prepositions ...G.3.6 To Have, 3ind- ...G.3.7 Past Tense I ...G.4.1 More on Adjectives ...G.4.2 Comparison Forms ...G.4.3 Numbers: Cardinals and Ordinals ...G.4.4 Telling the Time ...G.4.5 Question Words ...G.4.6 This, That, These (Demonstrative Pronouns) ...G.4.7 Past Tense II

Gulf Arabic Grammar - Possessive Pronouns with '-maal'

There’s another way to form a possessive: by using a definite masculine noun (a noun with al- in front) plus maali, maalik, maalich, maalah, maalha, maalna, maalkum, maalhum. For feminine nouns, you would use maalti, maaltik, maaltich, maaltah, maalatha, maalatna, maalatkum, maalathum.

Examples:
kitaabi – my book (notice that you don’t use the definite article il-)
il-kitaab maali – my book (It could also mean “The book is mine”.)
hay l-kitaab maali. – Here’s my book.

maktabna – our office
il-maktab maalna – our office (It could also mean “The office is ours.”)
l-maktab maalna ba3eed. Our office is far away.

thallaajat-ha – her refrigerator
ith-thallaja maalatha – her refrigerator, her fridge (It could also mean “The fridge is hers.”)
hay ith-thallaaja maalatha. – Here’s her fridge.

Notice that if you don’t use il-, and say, for example, maktab maalna this would mean “an office of ours” (one of several). kitaab maali – a book of mine.