provar

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to prove, show, to demonstrate that something is true, to give proof for
  2. (transitive) to try, try out, test
  3. (transitive) to try, attempt, take on
  4. (transitive) to try on (of clothes)
  5. (transitive) to taste, to try (to sample the flavour of food)

Frequency

A2
Hyphenated as
pro‧var
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pɾoˈva(ʁ)/
Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese provar, from Latin probāre.

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