prove

Etymology 1
From, from and , both from , from , from , from ,  +. Displaced native 🇨🇬, from 🇨🇬. . More at, ,.

Verb

 * 1)  To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for.
 * 2)  To turn out; to manifest.
 * 3)  To turn out to be.
 * 4) * 1964, Jean Merrill, The Pushcart War, 2014 The New York Review Children's Collection edition, ISBN 9781590178195, chapter 33, page 199:
 * This battle did not take place in the streets. It took place entirely in words, and it was to prove the turning point in the war.
 * 1)  To put to the test, to make trial of.
 * 2)  To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.
 * to prove a will
 * 1)  To experience.
 * 2)  To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.
 * to prove a page
 * 1)  To determine by experiment which effects a substance causes when ingested.
 * 1)  To put to the test, to make trial of.
 * 2)  To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.
 * to prove a will
 * 1)  To experience.
 * 2)  To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.
 * to prove a page
 * 1)  To determine by experiment which effects a substance causes when ingested.
 * 1)  To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.
 * to prove a will
 * 1)  To experience.
 * 2)  To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.
 * to prove a page
 * 1)  To determine by experiment which effects a substance causes when ingested.
 * to prove a page
 * 1)  To determine by experiment which effects a substance causes when ingested.
 * 1)  To determine by experiment which effects a substance causes when ingested.

Usage notes
As the past participle of prove, is sometimes still discouraged, and  is preferred (“have proved” rather than “have proven”). However, they are both about equally common in US English, and both are used and considered correct in UK English. In UK English, “proved” is more common,  but not, for example, in the very common expression “innocent until proven guilty” (rarely “innocent until proved guilty”).

In addition, as an attributive adjective, proven is much more commonly used, and  is widely proscribed – “a proven method”, not “a proved method”.

Historically, proved is the older form, while proven arose as a Scottish variant – see etymology. Used in legal writing from the mid-17th century, it entered literary usage more slowly, only becoming significant in the 19th century, with the poet among the earliest frequent users (presumably for reasons of meter). In the 19th century, proven was widely discouraged, and remained significantly less common through the mid-20th century (proved being used approximately four times as often); by the late 20th century it came to be used about equally often in US English.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: بَرْهَنَ,
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: probar
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: bevise
 * Dutch:, , bewijs leveren, bewijzen leveren
 * Esperanto: pruvi
 * Estonian: tõestama
 * Finnish:, näyttää toteen
 * French:
 * Friulian: provâ
 * Galician: probar,
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌺𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: τεκμηριόω
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: प्रमाणित करना, साबित करना
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: sannreyna
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: membuktikan
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 証明する
 * Korean:
 * Latin:, arguō
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: bewiesen
 * Macedonian: докажува, докаже
 * Maore Comorian: uonesa dalili
 * Maori: whakatūturu, hāpono
 * Occitan: ,
 * Old English: sōþian
 * Persian: اثبات کردن
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sardinian: proai, proare, probare, provai, provare
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovene: dokazati
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: дово́дити
 * Venetian: provar,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yoruba:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Bulgarian: оказвам се
 * Czech: se
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: φαίνομαι
 * Italian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scots: kyth
 * Slovene: izkazati se


 * Bulgarian:
 * Esperanto: provi
 * Galician: probar,
 * Gothic: 𐌺𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Latin:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Tagalog: diyamahin


 * Bulgarian:
 * Galician:, validar
 * Maori: whakatūturu
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Spanish:


 * Italian: (1),  (1),  (2),  (2)

Noun

 * 1)  The process of dough proofing.

Etymology 2
Simple past form of, conjugated as a Germanic strong verb, on the pattern of →.

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from older.

Noun

 * 1) A gift out of love
 * 2) A life-long maintenance

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) proof
 * 2) test, examination, trial
 * 3) evidence
 * 4) try

Etymology
From, from , from. Compare 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) poor