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anot

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Singapore/əˈnɔt˨/

anot is the alternative form of or not.

Meaning of or not

Particle

or not

  1. (Malaysia, Singapore, colloquial) Final interrogative particle, forming a yes/no question from a declarative statement.
    • Are you coming or not?
    Synonyms:
    is it

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Origin of anot

Partial calque of Hokkien 抑無 /抑无 (a̍h bô / á bô, “or not; or no; or none”). See also Hokkien 抑是 (a̍h-sī / á-sǐ, “or”), 是抑毋是 (sī á-m̄-sī / sǐ á-m̄-sǐ, “isn't?”, literally “is it? or is it not?”).

Questions about anot

What is anot the alternative form of?
Anot is the alternative form of or not.
How do you pronounce anot?
Anot is pronounced /əˈnɔt˨/ (Singapore).

Words near anot in the dictionary

  1. anostosis
  2. anostostomatid
  3. anostostomatids
  4. anostracan
  5. anostracans
  6. anot
  7. anotha
  8. anotha'
  9. anothah
  10. another
  11. another country heard from

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anot (page history and authors); or not (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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