رح

Etymology
, as preserved in cognates like 🇨🇬. This is in turn related to the verb and ultimately derived from, but the precise link is uncertain:
 * Possibly a contraction of the verb's active participle, which is widely attested as a fully-inflected future auxiliary. This requires to have somehow developed into the  we see in other dialects, however. Usually, the sequence *-āyi- instead contracted to a diphthong -ay- in Levantine (as in  from  and  from ), making it off-putting that there are no surviving traces of an intermediate form.
 * Perhaps directly from the verb . Many other auxiliary particles are also verbs frozen in the third-person-singular past conjugation, including, ,.

Particle

 * 1) going to;

Usage notes

 * Closer to English than  in many cases, the latter instead being expressible by the future-marking sense of.
 * Like with, the verb can appear either with or without the prefix, with no bearing on the construction's meaning either way. The usage with the b- is primarily found in Lebanon.
 * Also like, can be negated with either or.

Etymology
, as preserved in cognates like 🇨🇬. This is in turn related to the verb and ultimately derived from, but the precise link is uncertain, compare with 🇨🇬.

Particle

 * 1)  will, going to

Usage notes

 * Closer to English than  in many cases, the latter instead being expressible by the present tense (prefix ).
 * As is usually the case with auxiliaries, is followed by the subjunctive form of the verb. Unlike in North Levantine Arabic, use of the present tense form is not common.
 * Like, it can be negated with either or.