verify

English

Etymology

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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French verifier (French: vérifier), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  vērificāre, present active infinitive of vērificō (“make true”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin vērus (“true”) + faciō (“do, make”); see -fy.

Verb

verify (third-person singular simple present verif, present participle ies, simple past and past participle verified)

1. (transitive) To substantiate or prove the truth of something
2. (transitive) To confirm or test the truth or accuracy of something
   • 1984, InfoWorld (volume 6, number 14, page 67)

     In comparison, it takes about a minute to save, rewind and manually verify a similar file on a cassette.

3. (transitive, law) To affirm something formally, under oath

Derived terms

• verification
• verifiable
• unverified

Translations

to substantiate or prove the truth of something

• Arabic: أكد
• Finnish: tarkistaa (fi), varmistaa (fi), todentaa (fi), verifioida
• Galician: verificar
• Georgian: დამოწმება (damoc̣meba), დადასტურება (dadasṭureba)
• German: belegen (de), beweisen (de), verifizieren (de)
• Greek: το να αποδεικνύεις οτι κάτι είναι αληθές (to na apodeiknýeis oti káti eínai alithés)
• Hebrew: וידא (vidé)
• Hungarian: bizonyít (hu), bebizonyít (hu), igazol (hu), hitelesít (hu), alátámaszt (hu)
• Ido: verigar (io)
• Latin: verifico
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• Manchu: ᠶᠠᡵᡤᡳᠶᠠᠯᠠᠮᠪᡳ (yargiyalambi)
• Maori: whakatūturu, manatoko
• Portuguese: verificar (pt)
• Romanian: verifica (ro)
• Russian: дока́зывать (ru) impf (dokázyvatʹ), доказа́ть (ru) pf (dokazátʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: verificirati (sh)
• Spanish: verificar (es)
• Swedish: verifiera (sv), bekräfta (sv)

to confirm or test the truth or accuracy of something

• Arabic: حقق
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• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 校驗／校验 (zh) (jiàoyàn), 校验 (zh) (jiàoyàn), 驗證／验证 (zh) (yànzhèng), 验证 (zh) (yànzhèng)

• Czech: ověřit (cs)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: vahvistaa (fi), todentaa (fi), verifioida
• French: vérifier (fr)
• Galician: verificar
• Georgian: შემოწმება (šemoc̣meba), გადამოწმება (gadamoc̣meba)
• German: überprüfen (de)
• Greek: επαληθεύω (el) (epalithévo)
• Hebrew: וידא (vidé)
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• Hungarian: ellenőriz (hu), megvizsgál (hu), verifikál
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: verifico
• Maori: manatoko
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: verificar (pt), confirmar (pt), constatar (pt)
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: проверя́ть (ru) impf (proverjátʹ), прове́рить (ru) pf (provéritʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: verificirati (sh), ovjeroviti (sh)
• Spanish: verificar (es)
• Swedish: verifiera (sv), kontrollera (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

law: to affirm something formally, under oath

• Arabic: شهد (ar)
• Finnish: vahvistaa (fi), vannoa (fi)
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} kijelent (hu)
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• Portuguese: constatar (pt)
• Russian: удостоверя́ть (ru) impf (udostoverjátʹ), удостове́рить (ru) pf (udostovéritʹ), заверя́ть (ru) impf (zaverjátʹ), заве́рить (ru) pf (zavéritʹ), подтвержда́ть (ru) impf (podtverždátʹ), подтверди́ть (ru) pf (podtverdítʹ)
• Swedish: verifiera (sv), attestera (sv), vidimera (sv)

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

• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} Periksa (id)
• Manx: ^{(please verify)} shickyree
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• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} constatar (es)

Further reading

• “verify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “verify”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.