The Portuguese word for to taste is
provar

Portuguese Definition

taste
1. Substantivo. gosto

gosto
1. n-m. taste (one of the five senses)
Visão, audição, olfato, gosto e tato. - Sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.
2. n-m. taste, flavour (a sensation produced by the tongue)
A comida tem um gosto azedo. - The food has a bitter taste.
3. n-m. taste (a person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic)
Tens um bom gosto musical. - You have good taste in music.
Gostos não se discutem. - There's no accounting for taste.
4. n-m. pleasure, enjoyment
Muito gosto em conhecê-lo. - Pleased to meet you.
5. n-m. fancy
Ela tomou o gosto pela dança. - She took a fancy to dancing.
6. v. verb form of gostar
7. n-m. (Internet) like (an individual vote showing support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet)

ter gosto de
1. to taste

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

saber
1. v. to know
2. v. to be aware of a fact
Perguntaram-me a resposta, mas eu não sabia. - They asked me the answer, but I didn’t know.
Sei que é verdade. - I know it’s true.
3. v. to be aware of a value or piece of information
Eu sei qual é a capital da Assíria. - I know what is the capital of Assyria.
Ele sabe duzentos algarismos do número neperiano. - He knows two hundred digits of Euler’s number.
4. v. (auxiliary) to know how to do something
Não sei fazer isso, mas ela sabe. - I don’t know how to do this, but she knows.
Sabes falar russo? - Can you speak Russian?
5. v. (indtr, sobre) to know about; to have heard about
Soube da explosão que houve no centro? - Have you heard about the downtown explosion?
6. v. (Portugal) indtr, a to taste of (to have the same taste as)
Um bom vinho sabe a carvalho. - A good wine tastes like oak.
7. v. (Portugal) to have a pleasant taste
Como sabe esse vinho! - How good does this wine taste!
8. v. to learn (to become informed of something)
Eles querem saber mais sobre o projeto. - They want to learn more about the project.
9. n-m. knowledge; lore (intellectual understanding)

experimentar
1. v. to experience
2. v. to experiment
3. v. to try (taste of food, fit of clothing etc.)
4. v. to attempt

prova
1. n-f. (education) examination; test
2. n-f. proof; evidence (fact or observation presented in support of an assertion)
3. n-f. (legal) evidence (anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial)
4. n-f. proof; assertion; affirmation
Aquelas palavras foram uma prova de seu ódio. - Those words were an assertion of his hatred.
5. n-f. (sports) discipline (category in which a sport belongs)
Corri a prova dos cem metros barreiras. - I ran the hundred-meter hurdles.
6. n-f. (logic, mathematics) proof (sequence of statements which concludes with a statement that is the object of the proof)
7. n-f. (figurative) obstacle; challenge
8. n-f. the act of trying out clothes
9. n-f. degustation; tasting
10. n-f. (printing) proof (trial impression)
11. v. verb form of provar

paladar
1. n-m. the sense of taste
2. n-m. taste (a person’s implicit set of preferences)
3. n-m. palate (roof of the mouth)

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