provar

Inherited from Old Catalan provar, from Latin probāre. First attested in the 12th century.^[1] Compare Occitan provar, French prouver, Spanish probar.

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

provar (first-person singular present provo, first-person singular preterite proví, past participle provat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. to try out, to test
2. to try to, to attempt to
3. to prove

• comprovar

• prova

• intentar
• tastar

• “provar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “provar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “provar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

provar (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of provare

Verb-object compound, composed of prova (“to test”) +‎ natura (“nature”).

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

• Hyphenation: pro‧var

provar (first-person singular present provo, first-person singular preterite provei, past participle provado)

1. (transitive) to prove, show, to demonstrate that something is true, to give proof for

   Synonym: demonstrar

2. (transitive) to try, try out, test

   Synonym: testar

3. (transitive) to try, attempt, take on

   Synonym: tentar

4. (transitive) to try on (of clothes)

   Synonym: experimentar

5. (transitive) to taste, to try (to sample the flavour of food)

   Synonym: experimentar

• prova
• provador

provar

1. present indicative of prova

From Latin probāre. Compare Italian provare.

provar

1. (transitive) to try, test

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• próva