حط واقي الشمس وطارد الناموس في شنطة ضهر.

حط means put or place.

It is the imperative form of the Egyptian Arabic verb يحط (yiḥoṭṭ) = to put.

So:

• حط = Put!
• حطّيت = I put
• بيحط = he puts / is putting

In Modern Standard Arabic, the usual verb is وضع and the command would be ضع, but in Egyptian Arabic حط is much more natural in everyday speech.

Yes, this sentence is a command.

In Egyptian Arabic, as in many languages, the subject you is often built into the imperative verb, so you do not need a separate word for it.

• حط = put! / you, put

  The sentence is speaking to one person. If you wanted to be more explicit or change who you are talking to, the verb form would change.

واقي literally means something like protector or protective thing.

It comes from the root related to protection. So:

• واقي الشمس = sun protector
• natural English meaning: sunscreen

This is a common Arabic way of naming things: use a descriptive phrase rather than a single compact word.

Because the phrase is literally protector of the sun in the sense of protection from the sun, and Arabic commonly uses the definite form in expressions like this.

So:

• الشمس = the sun
• واقي الشمس = literally sun protector / protector from the sun

Even though English says sunscreen without the, Arabic naturally says الشمس here.

Literally, it means mosquito repeller or something that drives away mosquitoes.

• طارد = repelling / driving away
• الناموس = mosquitoes / the mosquitoes in a generic sense

So طارد الناموس is the normal kind of descriptive phrase used for mosquito repellent.

In Arabic, generic categories are often expressed with the definite article.

So الناموس here does not necessarily mean some specific mosquitoes already mentioned. It can mean mosquitoes in general.

That is why:

• طارد الناموس sounds natural for mosquito repellent

This is one of those places where Arabic uses definiteness differently from English.

Literally, it means back bag.

• شنطة = bag
• ضهر = back

Together, شنطة ضهر means backpack.

This kind of noun + noun combination is very common in Egyptian Arabic.

Because Arabic does not have an indefinite article like English a/an.

So:

• شنطة ضهر can mean a backpack
• the indefiniteness is understood from context

That means في شنطة ضهر naturally means in a backpack.

Because it is a prepositional phrase telling you where to put the items.

The basic structure is:

• حط = put
• واقي الشمس وطارد الناموس = sunscreen and mosquito repellent
• في شنطة ضهر = in a backpack

So the order is:

Put [item 1 and item 2] [where].

That is very natural in Egyptian Arabic.

Because both items are being put into the same place.

The sentence groups the two objects together:

• واقي الشمس
• وطارد الناموس

Then it gives one destination for both:

• في شنطة ضهر

So the meaning is:

Put sunscreen and mosquito repellent in a backpack.

You do not need to repeat في unless you are creating a different structure.

Yes. In الشمس, the ل of ال is not pronounced normally because ش is a sun letter.

So instead of saying something like al-shams, it is pronounced more like:

• ish-shams in Egyptian-style pronunciation

In the full phrase:

• واقي الشمس ≈ wāʔi-sh-shams / wāʔish-shams

So learners often hear the l disappear, and that is completely normal.

حط is short in writing, but it has a strong, doubled final consonant.

It is pronounced approximately:

• ḥoṭṭ

A few pronunciation notes:

• ح is a strong breathy h, not the regular English h
• ط is an emphatic t
• the final ط is doubled, so the word ends sharply and strongly

That doubling is important. It helps distinguish the natural Egyptian pronunciation.

Yes, it is very Egyptian and very colloquial.

A more formal or Modern Standard Arabic expression would be:

• حقيبة ظهر = backpack

But in everyday Egyptian Arabic, شنطة ضهر is extremely natural and common.

So if you are learning spoken Egyptian, شنطة ضهر is the expression you are likely to hear and use.

Yes. A more formal version might be something like:

• ضع واقي الشمس وطارد البعوض في حقيبة ظهر.

Differences:

• ضع instead of حط for put
• البعوض instead of الناموس for mosquitoes
• حقيبة ظهر instead of شنطة ضهر for backpack

But the original sentence is perfectly natural for everyday Egyptian Arabic.

In this sentence, الناموس clearly means mosquitoes.

Context makes that obvious because it follows طارد and appears in the phrase طارد الناموس, which is a common everyday expression for mosquito repellent.

So for a learner, the safest reading here is simply:

• طارد الناموس = mosquito repellent

Yes. If the objects were already known from context, a speaker might replace them with a pronoun.

For example:

• حطهم في شنطة ضهر = Put them in a backpack

But in your sentence, the speaker names the items directly:

• واقي الشمس وطارد الناموس

That makes the instruction clear without needing any previous context.