නොවේ not

Language

html

Surface

keywords

Locale

si

Brain ID

html/keywords/not

Upstream reference

MDN · deep

Brain version

1.1.0-alpha.13 · generated Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:26:24 GMT · hash 4914b8003cdd29d0…

Provenance

No council migration covers this term — it comes from the dictionary / base layer.

Full per-leaf change history across brain builds is not yet recorded; shown is the current build's layer stack.

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AI council review

Reviewed by 1 model · @cf/aisingapore/gemma-sea-lion-v4-27b-it · 2026-07-17

Cluster bool-operators · locale si · member not

improve

verdict

නොවේ

existing translation

නො

improved translation

Explanation

While 'නොවේ' (novē) is the full negation, the prefix 'නො' (no) is more commonly used in programming contexts for brevity and clarity, mirroring how 'not' functions as a prefix in many languages. Using 'නොවේ' is unnecessarily verbose for an operator.