test

See also: Test, TEST, tèst, těst, tęst, țest, and tesť

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Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /tɛst/, [tʰɛst]

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• (Australia, New Zealand, General South African) IPA^(key): [tʰest]
• Rhymes: -ɛst

Etymology 1

Two sea urchin tests

From Middle English test, teste, from Old French test, teste (“an earthen vessel, especially a pot in which metals were tried”), from Latin testum (“the lid of an earthen vessel, an earthen vessel, an earthen pot”), from *terstus, past participle of the root *tersa (“dry land”). See terra, thirst. The examination sense came via metaphor of the metallurgical sense: the way a metallurgist puts to the test their gold, a teacher may put to the test their students' knowledge.

Displaced Old English afandung.

Noun

test (plural tests)

2. A challenge, trial.
   • 2012 March-April, Colin Allen, “Do I See What You See?”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 26 April 2012, page 168:

     Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.

   2. (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
   4. A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
      • 1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!‎^[2]:

        It's Christmas at ground zero / The button has been pressed / The radio / Just let us know / That this is not a test

   5. (psychology, psychometrics) A standardised measure, consisting of one or more items.

      aptitude test

      Test Theory

   7. (cricket, normally “Test”) A Test match.
4. (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins; testa.
6. A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
8. (botany) Testa; seed coat.
10. (obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
    • 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, (please specify the page number):

      Who would excel, when few can make a test / Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?

Synonyms

• (challenge, trial): See Thesaurus:test
• (academics: examination): examination, quiz

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “academics: examination”): recess

Hyponyms

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Hyponyms of test

• ACCESS test
• acid test
• Ames test
• Anderson-Darling test
• babysitter test
• Bechdel-Wallace test
• Benedict's test
• binomial test
• blood test
• Charpy test
• cock's comb test
• duck test
• Eggertz test
• elephant test
• field test
• fine-tooth comb test
• finger test
• flame test
• fragility test
• giggle test
• hearing test
• hotfire test
• Huhner test
• Hühner test
• inkblot test
• Lagrange test
• Lagrangian test
• laugh test
• level test
• litmus test
• Martindale rub test
• Martindale test
• Miller-Rabin test
• MOT test
• multiple-choice test
• nose test
• personality test
• Rabin-Miller test
• Rorschach test
• Schiff test
• single-choice test
• smell test
• smoke test
• sniff test
• soap test
• software test
• spin prime test
• static test
• stress test
• taste test
• Trojan test
• vertical jump test
• virginity test
• whisper test
• Zimmermann test

Derived terms

• A/B test
• Abel test
• acceptance test
• aftertest
• air puff test
• alcotest
• alpha test
• alternating series test
• B3B-test
• backtest
• ball-on-three-balls test
• Becchi's test
• Bechdel test
• beep test
• Beilstein test
• bench test
• beta test
• black building test
• bleeding time test
• bleep test
• blind test
• Blockburger test
• blot test
• borax bead test
• Bourne test
• brake test
• breath test
• brown bag test
• brown paper bag test
• burrito test
• central location test
• Charpy impact test
• chi-square test
• comb test
• Coombs test
• Cooper test
• copy test
• crash test
• crash test dummy
• cricket test
• day-after recall test
• device under test
• Dick test
• diehard test
• dielectric withstand test
• Dix-Hallpike test
• DNA test
• double-blind test
• Draize test
• driving test
• drug test
• DUT
• elk test
• emissions test
• ESDA test
• eye test
• field sobriety test
• field-test
• final test
• flash test
• flood test
• fluorine test
• foretest
• Friedman test
• fuzz test
• Griess test
• Grubbs' test
• Guthrie test
• hair drug test
• hair follicle test
• hall test
• Heaf test
• high-test
• high-test peroxide
• hit test
• hole-board test
• hot iron test
• Howey test
• ignition tube test
• immunotest
• intertest
• intratest
• Ishihara test
• Izod test
• Kesternich test
• Knoop test
• KPSS test
• Kwiatkowski-Phillips-Schmidt-Shin test
• Lachman test
• lateral flow test
• Lemon test
• limit comparison test
• liver function test
• Lüscher test
• Mako Mori test
• Mann-Whitney U test
• Mantoux test
• Marechal-Rosin test
• Marechal's test
• maternity test
• means-test
• means test
• microtest
• midtest
• Miller test
• mirror test
• mistest
• Molisch's test
• mom test
• Montenegro test
• Mooney face test
• moose test
• Mullen test
• Mull of Kintyre test
• multitest
• Murphy's test
• nerdity test
• nonstress test
• nontest
• nuclear test
• nucleic acid test
• oil test
• open-field test
• oral test
• oscillating wave test system
• Palko test
• Papanicolaou test
• paper bag test
• Pap test
• pap test
• paraffin test
• patch test
• paternity test
• pencil test
• penetration test
• pen test
• perfect gold standard test
• phototest
• placement test
• platelet function test
• playtest
• poppy seed test
• postcoital test
• posttest
• Potter Stewart test
• precipitin test
• pregnancy test
• pre-test
• pretest
• prick test
• pub test
• pulmonary function test
• purity test
• put to the test
• quest
• quinine test
• rabbit test
• rape test kit
• rapid antigen test
• RAT test
• red face test
• retest
• reverse Turing test
• Rinne test
• road test
• roadtest
• road-test
• Rogers test
• Rorschach inkblot test
• saliva test
• Sally-Anne test
• salt spray test
• sanity test
• Sargent Jump Test
• Schamroth's test
• Schick test
• Schwabach test
• screen test
• self-test
• sequential probability ratio test
• serotest
• shit test
• shovel test
• Sims test
• sitting-rising test
• smear test
• Snellen test
• soak test
• Sobel test
• spark test
• speaking test
• split test
• spot test
• stand the test of time
• stereotest
• straight face test
• straight-face test
• Stroop test
• Student's t test
• Student's t-test
• subtest
• sub-test
• surprise test paradox
• Szondi test
• Tan Delta test
• taste-test
• teach to the test
• Tebbit test
• Tecumseh step test
• testability
• testable
• test and trace
• testate
• testbank
• test bed
• testbed
• test bench
• testbench
• test card
• test case
• test cross
• testcross
• test data
• test depth
• test double
• test-drive
• test drive
• test-driven development
• test dummy
• tester
• test-fire
• testfire
• test firing
• test flight
• test-fly
• test harness
• testitis
• testless
• testlet
• test match
• test mule
• test of time
• test paper
• test-paper
• test pattern
• testpiece
• test pilot
• test pit
• test portion
• test pressing
• test-retest method
• test run
• test site
• test subject
• test suite
• test-taker
• test-time compute
• test track
• test tube
• test-tube baby
• test tube baby
• testworthy
• thermotest
• Thomas test
• tilt table test
• time test
• tine test
• torture-test
• Tower of London test
• trade test
• transfer test
• triangle test
• tribotest
• triple test
• t-test
• t test
• Tukey's honest significance test
• Tukey's range test
• Tukey's test
• Turing test
• unit test
• Vito Russo test
• Wada test
• Wald test
• Wassermann test
• Weber test
• white glove test
• white-glove test
• Widal test
• Winkler test
• Winogradsky test
• z-test

Descendants

• → Armenian: թեստ (tʻest)
• → Azerbaijani: test
• → Catalan: test
• → Czech: test
• → Danish: test
• → Dutch: test
• → Finnish: testi
• → French: test
• → German: Test
• → Hungarian: teszt
• → Italian: test
• → Japanese: テスト (tesuto)
• → Korean: 테스트 (teseuteu)
• → Macedonian: тест (test)
• → Norwegian: test
• → Persian: تست (test)
• → Polish: test
• → Portuguese: teste
• → Romanian: test
• → Russian: тест (test)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: тест

  Latin script: test

• → Slovene: test
• → Spanish: test
• → Swedish: test
• → Turkish: test
• → Ukrainian: тест (test)

Translations

challenge, trial

• Albanian: provë (sq) (indefinite), prova (definite)
• Arabic: اِخْتِبَار (ar) m (iḵtibār), تَجْرِبَة f (tajriba)
• Asturian: prueba f
• Azerbaijani: sınaq (az)
• Belarusian: тэст m (test), выпрабава́нне n (vyprabavánnje), выпрабава́ньне n (vyprabavánʹnje)
• Bulgarian: тест (bg) m (test), изпита́ние (bg) n (izpitánie)
• Burmese: အစမ်း (my) (a.cam:)
• Catalan: prova (ca) f, test (ca) m
• Cebuano: pagsulay
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 試驗 / 试验 (zh) (shìyàn)

• Crimean Tatar: sınav
• Czech: test (cs) m, zkouška (cs) f
• Danish: prøve (da) c, prøvelse c, forsøg n
• Dutch: test (nl) m, proef (nl) m
• Esperanto: testo (eo)
• Finnish: koe (fi), koetus (fi)
• French: épreuve (fr) f
• Friulian: prove f
• Galician: proba (gl) f, test m, ensaio m
• German: Test (de) m, Versuch (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌺𐌿𐍃𐍄𐍃 f (gakusts)
• Greek: δοκιμασία (el) f (dokimasía), δοκιμή (el) f (dokimí)

  Ancient Greek: πεῖρα f (peîra), δοκιμή f (dokimḗ)

• Hebrew: מִבְחָן (he) m (mivkhán)
• Hindi: चुनौती (hi) f (cunautī)
• Hungarian: próba (hu)
• Indonesian: tes (id)
• Italian: prova (it), verifica (it)
• Japanese: 実験 (ja) (じっけん, jikken), 試練 (ja) (しれん, shiren)
• Korean: 검사(檢査) (ko) (geomsa)
• Ladin: proa f
• Luxembourgish: Prouf f
• Malay: ujian (ms)
• Malayalam: പരീക്ഷ (ml) (parīkṣa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: test (no) m, prøve (no) m or f, forsøk (no) n

• Occitan: espròva (oc) f
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: آزْمَایِش (fa) (âzmâyeš)

• Plautdietsch: Test m, Proow f
• Polish: próba (pl) f
• Portuguese: prova (pt) f, teste (pt) m
• Romanian: probă (ro) f
• Russian: про́ба (ru) f (próba), тест (ru) m (tɛst), испыта́ние (ru) n (ispytánije)
• Sanskrit: परीक्षा (sa) f (parīkṣā)
• Sardinian: proa f, proba, prova
• Scottish Gaelic: dearbhadh m, feuchainn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: те̏ст m

  Latin: tȅst (sh) m

• Sicilian: prova f
• Slovak: test m
• Slovene: preizkus m, preizkušnja f
• Spanish: prueba (es) f, probatura f
• Swahili: jaribio (sw)
• Swedish: prov (sv) n, prövning (sv) c, försök (sv) n
• Tagalog: pagsusulit (tl)
• Tajik: озмоиш (tg) (ozmoyiš)
• Turkish: test (tr), deneme (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: فتنه (fitne)

• Ukrainian: тест m (test), випро́бування n (vypróbuvannja)
• Venetan: prova f
• Vietnamese: sự thử thách
• Zazaki: cerbnayen, test kerden
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

academics: examination — see also exam

• Albanian: provim (sq) (indefinite), provimi (definite)
• Arabic: اِمْتِحَان (ar) m (imtiḥān), اِخْتِبَار (ar) m (iḵtibār)

  Hijazi Arabic: اِخْتِبار m (iḵtibār)

• Armenian: քննություն (hy) (kʻnnutʻyun), ստուգարք (hy) (stugarkʻ), ստուգողական (hy) (stugoġakan)
• Azerbaijani: test (az), sınaq (az), imtahan (az), yoxlama (az)
• Bashkir: имтихан (imtixan)
• Basque: azterketa
• Belarusian: экза́мен m (ekzámjen), тэст m (test), кантро́льная рабо́та f (kantrólʹnaja rabóta) (control work)
• Bengali: পরীক্ষা (bn) (porikkha), ইমতেহান (bn) (imtehan)
• Bulgarian: и́зпит (bg) m (ízpit), тест (bg) m (test)
• Burmese: စာမေးပွဲ (my) (came:pwai:)
• Catalan: examen (ca) m, prova (ca) f, test (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 考試 / 考试 (haau² si⁵)

  Mandarin: 考試 / 考试 (zh) (kǎoshì)

• Czech: zkouška (cs) f
• Danish: eksamen c
• Dutch: examen (nl) n, test (nl) m
• Esperanto: ekzameno, testo (eo)
• Estonian: test (et), eksam (et)
• Finnish: koe (fi), tentti (fi)
• French: test (fr) m, examen (fr) m
• Galician: proba (gl) f, exame (gl) m, test m
• Georgian: ტესტი (ṭesṭi), გამოცდა (gamocda)
• German: Examen (de) n, Prüfung (de) f
• Greek: διαγώνισμα (el) n (diagónisma)
• Hebrew: מִבְחָן (he) m (mivkhán)
• Hindi: परीक्षा (hi) m (parīkṣā), परख (hi) f (parakh), इम्तहान (hi) m (imtahān)
• Hungarian: vizsga (hu), teszt (hu)
• Icelandic: próf n
• Indonesian: tes (id), ujian (id)
• Irish: scrúdú m
• Italian: esame (it) m
• Japanese: 試験 (ja) (しけん, shiken), テスト (ja) (tesuto)
• Kazakh: емтихан (emtiyxan), сынақ (sınaq)
• Khmer: វិញ្ញាសា (km) (vɨññiəsaa)
• Korean: 시험(試驗) (ko) (siheom), 테스트 (ko) (teseuteu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: تاقیکردنەوە (taqîkirdnewe)

  Northern Kurdish: imtîhan (ku), ezmûn (ku), azmûn (ku)

• Kyrgyz: тест (test), сынак (ky) (sınak), экзамен (ky) (ekzamen)
• Lao: ການສອບ (kān sǭp)
• Latvian: tests m, eksāmens m
• Lithuanian: testas m, egzaminas (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Prüfung f
• Macedonian: тест (mk) m (test), испит m (ispit)
• Malay: ujian (ms), peperiksaan (ms)
• Malayalam: പരീക്ഷ (ml) (parīkṣa)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: шалгалт (mn) (šalgalt)

• Pannonian Rusyn: испит m (ispit)
• Pashto: امتحان (ps) m (emtehān), ازمېیښت m (azmeyǝ́x̌t), ازمويښت (azmoyǝ́x̌t)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: آزْمایِش (fa) (âzmâyeš), اِمْتِحان (fa) (emtehân), تِسْت (fa) (test), آزْمون (fa) (âzmun)

• Plautdietsch: Test m
• Polish: sprawdzian (pl) m, egzamin (pl) m
• Portuguese: exame (pt) m, teste (pt) m, prova (pt)
• Romanian: examen (ro) n
• Russian: экза́мен (ru) m (ekzámen), тест (ru) m (tɛst), контро́льная рабо́та f (kontrólʹnaja rabóta) (control work)
• Scottish Gaelic: feuchainn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: те̏ст m, ѝспит m

  Latin: tȅst (sh) m, ìspit (sh) m

• Sicilian: esami (scn) f
• Slovak: skúška f, test m
• Slovene: test m, izpit (sl) m
• Spanish: test (es) m, prueba (es) f
• Swedish: prov (sv) n, tentamen (sv) c, tenta (sv) c, dugga (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagsusulit (tl), subok
• Tajik: озмоиш (tg) (ozmoyiš), имтиҳон (tg) (imtihon), озмун (ozmun)
• Tatar: имтихан (tt) (imtixan)
• Telugu: పరీక్ష (te) (parīkṣa)
• Thai: สอบ (th) (sɔ̀ɔp), การสอบ (th) (gaan-sɔ̀ɔp)
• Turkish: sınav (tr), test (tr), imtihan (tr)
• Turkmen: synag, ekzamen
• Ukrainian: екза́мен (uk) m (ekzámen), тест m (test), контро́льна робо́та f (kontrólʹna robóta)
• Urdu: اِمْتِحان (ur) m (imtihān)
• Uyghur: ئىمتىھان (imtihan)
• Uzbek: imtihon (uz), ekzamen (uz), sinov (uz)
• Vietnamese: bài thi, khảo thí (vi)
• Yiddish: עקזאַמען m (ekzamen), בחינה f (bkhine)

product examination

• Arabic: اِمْتِحَان (ar) m (imtiḥān), اِخْتِبَار (ar) m (iḵtibār)
• Armenian: փորձարկում (hy) (pʻorjarkum)
• Belarusian: тэст m (test)
• Bulgarian: тест (bg) m (test)
• Catalan: test (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 測試 / 测试 (zh) (cèshì), 檢查 / 检查 (zh) (jiǎnchá)

• Czech: test (cs) m
• Danish: test (da) c
• Dutch: test (nl) m
• Esperanto: testo (eo)
• Finnish: testi (fi), käyttökoe
• French: test (fr) m
• Galician: proba (gl) f, test m, ensaio m
• German: Test (de), Prüfung (de) f, Erprobung (de) f
• Greek: εξέταση (el) f (exétasi)
• Hindi: आज़माइश f (āzmāiś), इम्तहान (hi) m (imtahān), प्रयोग (hi) m (prayog), परीक्षा (hi) m (parīkṣā)
• Hungarian: teszt (hu), vizsgálat (hu)
• Irish: tástáil f
• Japanese: 検査 (ja) (けんさ, kensa), テスト (ja) (tesuto)
• Korean: 테스트 (ko) (teseuteu), 검사 (ko) (geomsa)
• Macedonian: тест (mk) m (test)
• Malay: ujian (ms)
• Malayalam: പരിശോധന (ml) (pariśōdhana)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: آزْمایِش (fa) (âzmâyeš), اِمْتِحان (fa) (emtehân)

• Polish: sprawdzian (pl) m, test (pl) m
• Portuguese: teste (pt) m
• Romanian: probă (ro) f, test (ro) n
• Russian: тест (ru) m (tɛst), испыта́ние (ru) n (ispytánije)
• Scottish Gaelic: dearbhadh m, feuchainn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тест m

  Latin: test (sh) m

• Slovak: test m
• Slovene: test m
• Spanish: prueba (es) f, test (es) m, probatura f
• Swedish: test (sv) n, provning (sv) c, prov (sv) c
• Tajik: озмоиш (tg) (ozmoyiš), имтиҳон (tg) (imtihon)
• Telugu: పరీక్ష (te) (parīkṣa)
• Thai: การทดลอง (th) (gaan-tót-lɔɔng)
• Ukrainian: тест m (test)
• Urdu: آزْمَائِش (ur) f (āzmāiś), اِمْتِحان (ur) m (imtihān)
• Vietnamese: phép kiểm thử, phép kiểm tra

cricket: test game

• Malayalam: ടെസ്റ്റ് (ṭesṟṟŭ)
• Māori: parawhakawai
• Marathi: कसोटी (mr) f (kasoṭī)
• Vietnamese: cuộc thi đấu

external calciferous shell

• Finnish: kuori (fi)
• Galician: testo (gl) m
• German: Gehäuse (de) n
• Russian: па́нцирь (ru) m (páncirʹ)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: صدف (sedef)

Verb

test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)

1. To challenge, to put a strain on (something).

   Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.

2. To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
3. To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.

   to test the soundness of a principle

   to test the validity of an argument

   • September 17, 1796, George Washington, Farewell Address

     Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.

4. (academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
5. To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
   • 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist‎^[3], volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 24 April 2013, page 200:

     Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems– […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.

6. (copulative) To be shown to be by test.

   He tested positive for cancer.

   • 2015, Leta Stetter Hollingworth, Harry Levi Hollingworth, Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development:

     It is probable that children who test above 180 IQ are actually present in our juvenile population in greater frequency than at the rate of one in a million.

7. (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.

   to test a solution by litmus paper

8. (intransitive, transitive, slang) To challenge (someone) to a fight.
   • 2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, page 31:

     Back then, you couldn't rock any type of jewelry just like that, because someone was going to test you or rob you. If you were wearing a chain, you had to be someone who was known for shooting or cutting or knocking dudes the fuck out. And someone who didn’t know you may still try and test, so you couldn't really rely on your rep to save you every time.

   • 2023 November 6, “Guapi” (1:44 from the start)‎^[4]performed by YoungBoy Never Broke Again:

     I'm feelin' special, I might fly her out to LA, yeah / I got my weapon, it turn violent if you test me, yeah

Conjugation

Conjugation of test

infinitive	(to) test
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	test	tested
2nd-person singular	test, testest†	tested, testedst†
3rd-person singular	tests, testeth†	tested
plural	test
subjunctive	test	tested
imperative	test	—
participles	testing	tested

^† Archaic or obsolete.

Derived terms

• backtest
• biotest
• cotest
• field-test
• mistest
• overtest
• phototest
• playtest
• pretest
• retest
• roadtest
• serotest
• subtest
• testee
• testing 1-2-3
• test out
• test someone's patience
• test the water
• test the waters
• tribotest
• tried and tested
• undertest
• untestability

Descendants

• German: testen

Translations

to challenge — see also put to the test

• Azerbaijani: sınamaq (az), sınaqdan keçirmək
• Bulgarian: изпи́твам (bg) impf (izpítvam), тествам (bg) (testvam)
• Catalan: posar a prova
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 測試 / 测试 (zh) (cèshì)

• Danish: udfordre
• Finnish: testata (fi), koestaa, haastaa (fi)
• French: tester (fr), mettre à l'épreuve (fr)
• German: fordern (de), abverlangen (de), provozieren (de)
• Gothic: 𐌺𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽 (kiusan)
• Greek: δοκιμάζω (el) (dokimázo)

  Ancient Greek: ἐλέγχω (elénkhō)

• Hindi: परखना (hi) (parakhnā)
• Hungarian: kihív (hu)
• Italian: testare (it), mettere alla prova
• Japanese: 試す (ja) (ためす, tamesu)
• Kyrgyz: сыноо (ky) (sınoo)
• Latin: perīclitor (la)
• Malay: menguji
• Malayalam: പരീക്ഷിക്കുക (ml) (parīkṣikkuka)
• Portuguese: testar (pt)
• Romanian: proba (ro), încerca (ro), testa (ro)
• Russian: испы́тывать (ru) impf (ispýtyvatʹ), испыта́ть (ru) pf (ispytátʹ), тести́ровать (ru) impf (tɛstírovatʹ), протести́ровать (ru) pf (protɛstírovatʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: feuch
• Slovak: testovať impf, otestovať pf
• Slovene: preizkusiti pf
• Spanish: testear (es), probar (es)
• Swahili: -jaribu
• Ukrainian: випробовувати (vyprobovuvaty), тестувати (testuvaty)
• Vietnamese: thử (vi), thử thách (vi)

to administer an examination during the academic term — see also evaluate

• Arabic: اِمْتَحَنَ (imtaḥana)
• Azerbaijani: sınaqdan keçirmək, sınamaq (az)
• Belarusian: тэстава́ць impf (testavácʹ), тэсці́раваць impf (tescíravacʹ)
• Catalan: examinar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 測驗 / 测验 (zh) (cèyàn), 考驗 / 考验 (zh) (kǎoyàn)

• Czech: testovat (cs) impf, zkoušet (cs) impf, vyzkoušet (cs) pf
• Danish: teste (da)
• Finnish: järjestää tentti
• French: tester (fr)
• German: prüfen (de)
• Greek: εξετάζω (el) (exetázo)
• Hungarian: vizsgázik (hu), vizsgáztat (hu)
• Japanese: テストする (ja) (tesuto suru), 試験する (ja) (しけんする, shiken suru)
• Korean: 시험하다 (ko) (siheomhada)
• Latin: specto (la)
• Polish: testować (pl) impf
• Russian: тести́ровать (ru) impf (tɛstírovatʹ), протести́ровать (ru) pf (protɛstírovatʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: feuch
• Slovak: testovať impf, skúšať impf, vyskúšať pf
• Spanish: testear (es)
• Tagalog: subukin
• Ukrainian: трестува́ти impf (trestuváty)
• Vietnamese: đưa (vi) bài thi

to place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions — see also examine

• Arabic: اِمْتَحَنَ (imtaḥana), اِخْتَبَرَ (iḵtabara), اِبْتَلَى (ibtalā), فَتَنَ (fatana)
• Azerbaijani: sınamaq (az), sınaqdan keçirmək
• Bulgarian: тествам (bg) (testvam)
• Catalan: provar (ca), testejar
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 檢驗 / 检验 (zh) (jiǎnyàn)

• Czech: testovat (cs) impf, zkoušet (cs) impf, vyzkoušet (cs) pf
• Danish: teste (da)
• Finnish: testata (fi)
• French: tester (fr)
• German: erproben (de)
• Greek: δοκιμάζω (el) (dokimázo), θέτω υπό δοκιμασία (théto ypó dokimasía)
• Hungarian: tesztel (hu), vizsgál (hu)
• Irish: tástáil f
• Italian: testare (it)
• Japanese: 試す (ja) (ためす, tamesu), テストする (ja) (tesuto suru)
• Latin: experior
• Malayalam: പരിശോധിക്കുക (ml) (pariśōdhikkuka)
• Polish: testować (pl) impf
• Portuguese: testar (pt)
• Russian: тести́ровать (ru) impf (tɛstírovatʹ), протести́ровать (ru) pf (protɛstírovatʹ), испы́тывать (ru) impf (ispýtyvatʹ), испыта́ть (ru) pf (ispytátʹ)
• Slovak: testovať impf, skúšať impf, vyskúšať pf
• Slovene: testirati impf, preizkusiti pf
• Spanish: testear (es), probar (es)
• Ukrainian: тестува́ти impf (testuváty), відтестува́ти pf (vidtestuváty), випробо́вувати impf (vyprobóvuvaty), випро́бувати impf (vypróbuvaty), ви́пробувати pf (výprobuvaty)
• Vietnamese: kiểm thử (vi), kiểm tra (vi)

to be shown to be by test — see also result

• Finnish: testata (fi)
• German: aufzeigen (de), erweisen (de) (reflexive)
• Spanish: dar (es), diñar (es)

to put to the proof — see also explore,‎ evaluate,‎ prove,‎ examine

• Spanish: revisar (es)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: دكه‌مك (deñemek)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} provoj (sq)
• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} اِخْتَبَرَ (iḵtabara)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:

  Simplified: ^{(please verify)} 测试 (zh) (cèshì), ^{(please verify)} 测验 (zh) (cèyàn), ^{(please verify)} 考验 (zh) (kǎoyàn), ^{(please verify)} 化验 (zh) (huàyàn)

  Traditional: ^{(please verify)} 測試 / 测试 (zh) (cèshì), ^{(please verify)} 測驗 / 测验 (zh) (cèyàn), ^{(please verify)} 考驗 / 考验 (zh) (kǎoyàn), ^{(please verify)} 化驗 / 化验 (zh) (huàyàn)

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} test (nl), ^{(please verify)} testen (nl)
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} coba (id)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} esaminare (it), ^{(please verify)} provare (it), ^{(please verify)} valutare (it), ^{(please verify)} verificare (it)
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} teste (no), ^{(please verify)} tester, ^{(please verify)} testet (no), ^{(please verify)} har testet
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} utmana (sv), ^{(please verify)} testa (sv)
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} పరీక్షించు (te) (parīkṣiñcu)
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} ทดสอบ (th) (tót-sɔ̀ɔp)

Etymology 2

From Middle English teste, from Old French teste, test and Latin testis (“one who attests, a witness”).

Noun

test (plural tests)

1. (obsolete) A witness.
   • 1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles

     Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed.

Verb

test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To make a testament, or will.

Related terms

• attest
• contest
• detest
• protest

Etymology 3

Noun

test (uncountable)

1. (informal, slang, bodybuilding) Clipping of testosterone.

Further reading

• “test”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “test”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• ETTs, Etts, TETS, TETs, Tets, sett, stet, tets

Breton

Noun

test

1. witness

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin testum (“earthenware pot”), from testa (“piece of burnt clay”). Cognate with Spanish tiesto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈte̞st]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈtest]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

test m (plural testos)

1. flowerpot
2. potsherd

Derived terms

• pixar fora de test

Related terms

• testa

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English test.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈte̞st]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central) [ˈtɛst]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈtest]

Noun

test m (plural tests)

1. test (exam or challenge)

Derived terms

• testar
• testejar

Related terms

• tèster

Further reading

• “test”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “test”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English test.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛst]
• Hyphenation: test

Noun

test m inan

1. test

   provést test ― to perform a test

Declension

Declension of test (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	test	testy
genitive	testu	testů
dative	testu	testům
accusative	test	testy
vocative	teste	testy
locative	testu	testech
instrumental	testem	testy

Derived terms

• testovací
• testovat
• testový

Further reading

• “test”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “test”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “test”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English test.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛsd/

Noun

test c (singular definite testen, plural indefinite tests)

1. A test, assessment or examination.

Declension

Declension of test

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	test	testen	test tests tester	testene testerne
genitive	tests	testens	tests tests'	testenes testernes

Synonyms

• prøve
• afprøvning

Derived terms

• teste
• personlighedstest
• testresultat
• testbil

References

• “test” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛst/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: test
• Rhymes: -ɛst

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English test.

Noun

test m (plural testen or tests, diminutive testje n)

1. test

Synonyms

• experiment
• proef

Derived terms

• geluidstest
• piepjestest
• praktijktest
• shuttleruntest
• sneltest
• testen

Descendants

• → Indonesian: tes

Verb

test

1. inflection of testen:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch test, from Old French test, from Latin testum, from testa.

Noun

test m (plural testen or tests, diminutive testje n)

1. a test, an earthen bowl or pot
2. a test, a cupel (used in smelting)

Derived terms

• vergiettest
• vuurtest

Descendants

• Afrikaans: tessie

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛst/

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Etymology 1

From Old French test, from Latin testum. The orthography of this form reflects semi-learned influence; compare the doublet têt.

Noun

test m (plural tests)

1. test, a cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement
2. (marine biology) test, the external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English test, itself from the same Old French test as above.

Noun

test m (plural tests)

1. a test, a tryout, a review

Derived terms

• tester

Further reading

• “test”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛʃt]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛʃt
• Hyphenation: test

Noun

test (plural testek)

1. (anatomy) body
2. (geometry) solid (three-dimensional figure)
3. (algebra) field (commutative ring)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	test	testek
accusative	testet	testeket
dative	testnek	testeknek
instrumental	testtel	testekkel
causal-final	testért	testekért
translative	testté	testekké
terminative	testig	testekig
essive-formal	testként	testekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	testben	testekben
superessive	testen	testeken
adessive	testnél	testeknél
illative	testbe	testekbe
sublative	testre	testekre
allative	testhez	testekhez
elative	testből	testekből
delative	testről	testekről
ablative	testtől	testektől
non-attributive possessive – singular	testé	testeké
non-attributive possessive – plural	testéi	testekéi

Possessive forms of test

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	testem	testeim
2nd person sing.	tested	testeid
3rd person sing.	teste	testei
1st person plural	testünk	testeink
2nd person plural	testetek	testeitek
3rd person plural	testük	testeik

Derived terms

• testecs
• testecske
• testes
• testetlen
• testi
• testiség
• testű

Compound words with this term at the beginning

• testalkat
• testápolás
• testépítés
• testnevelés
• testnyelv
• testőr
• testrész
• testszőrzet
• testtartás
• testvér

Compound words with this term at the end

• altest
• égitest
• felsőtest
• forgástest
• fűtőtest
• hajótest
• holttest
• úttest
• vértest

Expressions

• a lélek kész, de a test erőtlen
• arkhimédészi test
• csak a testemen keresztül
• platóni test
• testre szab

Further reading

• test in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English test.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛst/
• Rhymes: -ɛst
• Hyphenation: tèst

Noun

test m (invariable)

1. test

Ladin

Noun

test m (plural [please provide])

1. text

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *téśtei (“to hew”)

Verb

test (?? missing information, ?? conjugation, present ??, past ??)

1. to beat
2. to knock about
3. to flog

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from English test, ultimately from Latin testum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛst/
• Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

test m (plural testijiet)

1. test (examination)

   Għamluli test tad-droga. ― They did a drug test on me.

Related terms

• ttesta

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From English test.

Noun

test m (definite singular testen, indefinite plural tester, definite plural testene)

1. a test

Derived terms

• synstest

Related terms

• teste

Etymology 2

Verb

test

1. imperative of teste

References

• “test” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English test.

Noun

test m (definite singular testen, indefinite plural testar, definite plural testane)

1. a test

Derived terms

• synstest

References

• “test” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin testum.

Noun

test oblique singular, m (oblique plural tez or tetz, nominative singular tez or tetz, nominative plural test)

1. (uncountable) clay
2. (countable) a pot, usually made out of clay

Descendants

• French: têt, test
• → Middle English: test
  • English: test (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: test
• → Middle High German: test
  • German: Test

References

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “test”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English test, from Middle English test, teste, from Old French test, teste, from Latin testum, from *terstus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛst/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -ɛst
• Syllabification: test

Noun

test m inan

1. (education) examination, exam, test (formal test)

   Synonyms: egzamin, sprawdzian

Declension

Declension of test

	singular	plural
nominative	test	testy
genitive	testu	testów
dative	testowi	testom
accusative	test	testy
instrumental	testem	testami
locative	teście	testach
vocative	teście	testy

Further reading

• “test”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[5] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “test”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[6] (in Polish)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French test. Doublet of țest.

Noun

test n (plural teste)

1. test

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	test	testul	teste	testele
genitive-dative	test	testului	teste	testelor
vocative	testule		testelor

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /têst/

Noun

tȅst m inan (Cyrillic spelling те̏ст)

1. test (challenge, trial)
2. test (academics)
3. test (product examination)

Declension

Declension of test

	singular	plural
nominative	tȅst	tèstovi
genitive	testa	testova
dative	testu	testovima
accusative	test	testove
vocative	teste	testovi
locative	testu	testovima
instrumental	testom	testovima

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English test.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtest/ [ˈt̪est̪]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -est
• Syllabification: test

Noun

test m (plural test or tests)

1. test

   Synonym: prueba

2. multiple-choice test, multiple-choice question

   Synonyms: (Spain) examen tipo test, examen de opción múltiple

Usage notes

Like other words that end in /st/, the recommended and standard plural of test is the same as the singular, as the consonant cluster /sts/ violates Spanish phonotactics.

Derived terms

• examen tipo test
• test de nivel

Further reading

• “test”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swedish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English test.

Noun

test c or n

1. a test, an examination, a trial
2. a test, an attempt, an experiment

Declension

Declension of test

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	test	tests
	definite	testet	testets
plural	indefinite	test	tests
	definite	testen	testens

Declension of test

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	test	tests
	definite	testen	testens
plural	indefinite	tester	testers
	definite	testerna	testernas

Synonyms

• examen
• försök
• experiment
• prov
• skrivning

Derived terms

• alkotest
• anlagstest
• betatest
• blindtest
• blodtest
• bläckplumpstest
• chitvåtest
• drogtest
• flervalstest
• graviditetstest
• hivtest
• intelligenstest
• konditionstest
• lackmustest
• lucktest
• personlighetstest
• rorschachtest
• språktest
• älgtest

Related terms

• testa

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish test, related to tesa (“to pull out wool”), from Middle Low German tēsen, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *taisan (“to pull apart, tug”).

Noun

test c

1. a tuft or lock of hair

Declension

Declension of test

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	test	tests
	definite	testen	testens
plural	indefinite	testar	testars
	definite	testarna	testarnas

Synonyms

• tofs
• tuss

Derived terms

• hårtest

Further reading

• “test”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• test in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• sett

Turkish

Etymology

From English test.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtest/
• Hyphenation: test

Noun

test (definite accusative testi, plural testler)

1. test
2. An exam consisting of multiple-choice questions with 3, 4 or 5 choices, labeled a through e.

Declension

Declension of test

singular plural nominative test testler definite accusative testi testleri dative teste testlere locative testte testlerde ablative testten testlerden genitive testin testlerin Possessive forms nominative singular plural 1st singular testim testlerim 2nd singular testin testlerin 3rd singular testi testleri 1st plural testimiz testlerimiz 2nd plural testiniz testleriniz 3rd plural testleri testleri definite accusative singular plural 1st singular testimi testlerimi 2nd singular testini testlerini 3rd singular testini testlerini 1st plural testimizi testlerimizi 2nd plural testinizi testlerinizi 3rd plural testlerini testlerini dative singular plural 1st singular testime testlerime 2nd singular testine testlerine 3rd singular testine testlerine 1st plural testimize testlerimize 2nd plural testinize testlerinize 3rd plural testlerine testlerine locative singular plural 1st singular testimde testlerimde 2nd singular testinde testlerinde 3rd singular testinde testlerinde 1st plural testimizde testlerimizde 2nd plural testinizde testlerinizde 3rd plural testlerinde testlerinde ablative singular plural 1st singular testimden testlerimden 2nd singular testinden testlerinden 3rd singular testinden testlerinden 1st plural testimizden testlerimizden 2nd plural testinizden testlerinizden 3rd plural testlerinden testlerinden genitive singular plural 1st singular testimin testlerimin 2nd singular testinin testlerinin 3rd singular testinin testlerinin 1st plural testimizin testlerimizin 2nd plural testinizin testlerinizin 3rd plural testlerinin testlerinin

Derived terms

• testçi
• testçik
• testçilik
• testli
• testsiz

Vietnamese

Etymology

From English test.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tɛt̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [tɛt̚˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [tɛk̚˦˥]
• Phonetic spelling: tét

Noun

test (classifier bài)

1. a test (examination)

   Synonym: kiểm tra

Verb

test

1. to test (examine)

   Synonym: kiểm tra