بعد ما بلل المطر الارض، شالت امي الملابس من البلكون بسرعة.

In this sentence, بعد ما is a common Levantine way to mean after or once before a whole clause.

So:

• بعد ما بلل المطر الارض = after the rain wet the ground

It is not a question here, and it does not mean after what? in this context. It is just a connector introducing the action that happened first.

Because Arabic often allows verb-first word order, especially in narration.

Here the structure is:

• بلل = wetted / soaked
• المطر = the rain
• الارض = the ground

So the pattern is:

• verb + subject + object

This is very normal in Arabic.
You could also hear:

• المطر بلل الارض

That would also be understandable, but verb-first sounds very natural in storytelling and description.

بلل here means made wet, wetted, or soaked.

The verb is from بلّل. In everyday Arabic writing, short vowels and the shadda are usually not written, so you see بلل, but it is understood as ballal in pronunciation.

So:

• بلل المطر الارض = the rain wet/soaked the ground

It is a transitive verb here, meaning something caused something else to become wet.

In the past tense, Arabic verbs change form depending on the person and gender.

• شال = he took / carried / removed
• شالت = she took / carried / removed

So the -ت ending marks she in the past tense.

That means شالت already contains the idea of she, so Arabic does not need a separate word like she before the verb.

Because Arabic often puts the verb first and then the subject.

So:

• شالت امي الملابس = my mother took the clothes

Literally, the structure is:

• took my mother the clothes

This is a very common Arabic pattern.
You could also say:

• امي شالت الملابس

That is also possible, but the original order is very natural.

امي means my mother.

It is made from:

• ام = mother
• -ي = my

So Arabic often uses suffixes instead of separate words for possession.

Examples:

• امي = my mother
• ابي = my father
• بيتي = my house

So امي already includes my.

Here شالت most naturally means took down, removed, or brought in.

The verb شال can mean things like:

• to lift
• to carry
• to take away
• to remove

In this sentence, since the clothes are on the balcony and the ground got wet from the rain, the meaning is probably:

• My mother quickly took the clothes in/off the balcony

So in context, removed/took down is the best sense.

Yes. الملابس means the clothes.

• ملابس = clothes
• الملابس = the clothes

It is a very common word and is understood in both colloquial Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic.

In everyday Levantine, people might also use other expressions depending on context, but الملابس is completely normal and clear.

Yes. بلكون means balcony, and it is a borrowed word that is very common in spoken Levantine.

So:

• من البلكون = from the balcony

You may also see or hear more formal words like:

• شرفة = balcony

But in everyday speech, بلكون is extremely common.

من means from.

So:

• من البلكون = from the balcony

This shows where the clothes were taken from.
The idea is that the clothes were on the balcony, and the mother removed them from there because of the rain.

بسرعة means quickly.

Literally, it is something like with speed:

• بـ = with / by
• سرعة = speed

Putting it at the end is very natural in Arabic. It describes how the action was done:

• شالت امي الملابس من البلكون بسرعة = My mother quickly took the clothes from the balcony

Arabic adverb placement is flexible, but the end position is very common.

It is very understandable to a Levantine learner and feels mostly natural, but it sits somewhere between everyday colloquial and more neutral Arabic.

Things that feel colloquial or Levantine include:

• بعد ما
• شالت
• البلكون

Things that are also shared with more formal Arabic include:

• المطر
• الارض
• الملابس

Also, the sentence has no case endings, which is normal in speech.

A more formal Modern Standard Arabic version might look something like:

• بعدما بلّل المطرُ الأرضَ، أزالت أمي الملابسَ من الشرفة بسرعة.

So the original sentence is very useful for a Levantine learner, even if some vocabulary is also common outside Levantine.

A rough pronunciation guide in Levantine would be:

baʿd ma ballal il-maṭar il-arḍ, shaalet immi l-malābis min il-balkōn bisurʿa

A few notes:

• بلل is pronounced roughly ballal
• شالت is pronounced roughly shaalet
• امي is often pronounced immi
• الارض is often pronounced close to il-arḍ or l-arḍ in connected speech

Exact pronunciation can vary by country and city, but this gives a good general Levantine reading.