بس بالليل بييجي صوت عالي من الشارع، وفيه ريحة مطر في الهوا.

Yes — بس can mean both but and only/just in Egyptian Arabic.

In this sentence, it means but:

بس بالليل... = But at night...

You decide from context which meaning is intended.

بالليل is the common Egyptian way to say at night.

It is made of:

• بـ = a preposition here, often giving a sense like in/at
• الليل = the night

So بالليل literally looks like in the night, but naturally means at night / during the night.

This kind of time expression is very common in Egyptian:

• بالنهار = in the daytime
• بالليل = at night

In Egyptian Arabic, بـ on a verb usually marks the present / habitual / ongoing non-past.

So:

• ييجي = come
• بييجي = comes / is coming / usually comes

Here بييجي صوت عالي literally means something like a loud sound comes or there comes a loud sound. In natural English, that is often rendered as a loud noise comes from the street or simply there’s a loud noise from the street.

Because it goes with صوت, which is a masculine singular noun.

• صوت = sound / voice / noise
• masculine singular noun
• so the verb is singular masculine: بييجي

Even though English might say there’s noise, Arabic is treating it as one singular noun: a sound / a loud noise.

Because the adjective must agree with the noun.

• صوت is masculine singular
• so the adjective is عالي = loud/high in masculine singular form

If the noun were feminine singular, you would expect عالية instead.

So:

• صوت عالي = a loud sound
• not صوت عالية

Literally, صوت can mean sound or voice. But in context, صوت عالي often works like a loud noise.

So depending on context, it could suggest:

• a loud sound
• a loud noise
• a loud voice

Here, with من الشارع, most learners would understand it as a loud noise/sound coming from the street.

This is a very natural Arabic way of expressing the idea.

Literally, it is:

بييجي صوت عالي من الشارع
= a loud sound comes from the street

But in English, we often translate the idea more naturally as:

• A loud noise comes from the street
• There’s a loud noise from the street
• You can hear a loud noise coming from the street

So the Arabic uses the verb come, where English may prefer a different structure.

Here وفيه means and there is.

It breaks down as:

• و = and
• فيه = there is / there are

In Egyptian Arabic, فيه is extremely common for expressing existence:

• فيه ناس = there are people
• فيه مشكلة = there is a problem

So:

وفيه ريحة مطر في الهوا
= and there is a smell of rain in the air

A useful thing to notice: the sentence has فيه and later another في, but they are doing different jobs:

• فيه = there is
• في الهوا = in the air

ريحة مطر is a natural colloquial way to say a smell of rain or the smell of rain, depending on context.

This is basically a noun + noun relationship, similar to smell of rain:

• ريحة = smell
• مطر = rain

In Egyptian Arabic, this kind of structure is very common without needing of.

Using ريحة مطر keeps it a bit more general and descriptive.
ريحة المطر can also exist, but it sounds more specifically like the smell of the rain.

So ريحة مطر is very natural here.

Here الهوا means the air.

So:

في الهوا = in the air

In other contexts, هوا can have other meanings too, depending on the phrase, but in this sentence it clearly means the physical air/atmosphere.

In Egyptian pronunciation, في الهوا is often said smoothly as fil-hawa.

Because of sun-letter assimilation.

It is written:

الشارع

But since ش is a sun letter, the ل of الـ is not pronounced. Instead, the following consonant is doubled in pronunciation.

So it is pronounced roughly like:

ish-shāreʿ

That is why:

من الشارع
sounds like
min-ish-shāreʿ

This is a very common Arabic pronunciation rule.

A rough transliteration would be:

bass bil-lēl biyīgi ṣōt ʿāli min ish-shāreʿ, wi fīh rīḥit maṭar fil-hawa

A few pronunciation notes:

• بس = bass
• بالليل = bil-lēl
• بييجي = biyīgi
• الشارع = ish-shāreʿ
• ريحة is often heard as rīḥa or rīḥit depending on how it connects to the next word
• في الهوا often becomes fil-hawa

Don’t worry if your pronunciation is not exact at first — the main value is hearing how words connect in Egyptian speech.

Because they are two different words with two different functions.

1. فيه = there is / there are
2. في = in

So:

• وفيه ريحة مطر = and there is a smell of rain
• في الهوا = in the air

This can feel confusing at first because they look similar, but functionally they are different.

It is clearly Egyptian Arabic.

Some Egyptian features here are:

• بييجي instead of a more Standard Arabic form
• فيه used in a very colloquial existential way
• الهوا as a natural colloquial word for the air
• the overall rhythm and wording sound conversational

A Modern Standard Arabic version would usually be phrased differently, even if the meaning is similar.