الولد الصغير كان بيعيط عشان عايز يروح مع ماما.

In Arabic, adjectives normally come after the noun they describe.

So:

• الولد = the boy
• الصغير = the small / little

Together, الولد الصغير means the little boy.

This is the normal order in both Egyptian Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic:

• noun first
• adjective second

Also, the adjective has to match the noun in things like:

• definiteness
• gender
• number

That is why both words have ال here.

Because the adjective must match the noun in definiteness.

Here, الولد is the boy, not just a boy, so it is definite.
Since الصغير describes that definite noun, it also becomes definite:

• ولد صغير = a small boy
• الولد الصغير = the small boy / the little boy

This is a very common pattern in Arabic.

كان بيعيط is a very common way to express an ongoing action in the past in Egyptian Arabic.

• كان = was
• بيعيط = cries / is crying

Together, in context, it means:

• he was crying

So this works a lot like the English past continuous.

A useful pattern is:

• كان + present-form verb → was doing something

Examples:

• كان بياكل = he was eating
• كان بينام = he was sleeping
• كان بيعيط = he was crying

Depending on context, this structure can sometimes also mean used to, but here it most naturally means was crying.

In Egyptian Arabic, the prefix بـ often marks the ordinary present tense.

So:

• يعيط = he cry / he cry out, as a base present form
• بيعيط = he cries / he is crying

Then when you add كان, the whole thing moves into the past:

• كان بيعيط = he was crying

This is one of the most important tense patterns in Egyptian Arabic.

Yes. يعيط / بيعيط is a very common Egyptian Arabic verb meaning to cry.

It is colloquial Egyptian, not the usual formal Modern Standard Arabic word. In MSA, learners often first meet يبكي for to cry, but in everyday Egyptian, يعيط is very natural.

So if you are learning spoken Egyptian, بيعيط is exactly the kind of form you want to know.

Here, عشان means because.

So:

• كان بيعيط عشان... = he was crying because...

In Egyptian Arabic, عشان is extremely common and can mean things like:

• because
• for
• so that
• in order to

The exact meaning depends on context.

In this sentence, it is clearly because:

• He was crying because he wanted to go with Mom.

You may also see علشان. It is the same word with a fuller pronunciation/spelling.

This is a very common Egyptian structure.

• عايز = wanting / wants
• يروح = he goes / to go

Together:

• عايز يروح = he wants to go

So even though عايز originally comes from a participle-like form, in everyday Egyptian it functions very much like want.

A useful pattern is:

• عايز + verb = want to do something

Examples:

• عايز آكل = I want to eat
• عايز أنام = I want to sleep
• عايز يروح = he wants to go

Because the subject is masculine singular: الولد = the boy.

So the form is:

• عايز = wanted/wanting, masculine singular
• عايزة = feminine singular

Examples:

• الولد عايز يروح = the boy wants to go
• البنت عايزة تروح = the girl wants to go

This is basic gender agreement.

Because Arabic often leaves the subject pronoun unstated when it is already clear.

In this sentence, the subject has already been introduced:

• الولد الصغير = the little boy

So after that, Arabic does not need to repeat he explicitly. The listener understands that عايز يروح is still about the boy.

In English, we usually need to say:

• because he wants to go

In Arabic, the he is built into the verb structure and the context.

Because this sentence is in Egyptian colloquial Arabic, not formal Modern Standard Arabic.

In everyday Egyptian:

• يروح is a very common verb for go

In formal Arabic:

• يذهب is more standard/formal

So:

• عايز يروح sounds natural in spoken Egyptian
• يريد أن يذهب would sound much more formal and not like everyday Egyptian conversation

مع means with.

So:

• مع ماما = with Mom

This tells you the boy wants to go together with his mother.

If the meaning were go to Mom, Arabic would use a different preposition or structure, such as something like:

• لماما
• عند ماما

But مع ماما specifically means with Mom.

Because ماما here works like a personal family term, similar to a name.

You normally do not say:

• الماما

Instead, you simply say:

• ماما = Mom / Mama

This is similar to English, where we say Mom and not the Mom in this kind of sentence.

In Egyptian Arabic, ال is often pronounced more like il or el, depending on the speaker.

So:

• الولد is pronounced roughly il-walad or el-walad

But in الصغير, the ل sound of ال merges with the next consonant because ص is a sun letter.

So الصغير is pronounced roughly like:

• es-soghayyar
• not el-soghayyar

That doubling of the s-like sound is normal with sun letters.

So the phrase sounds roughly like:

• el-walad es-soghayyar

This is a very common pronunciation rule in Arabic.