Meaning of परख in English

Trial; attempt; essay.
Examination and determination; test; as, an assay of bread or wine.
Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.
Tested purity or value.
The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin.
The alloy or metal to be assayed.
To try; to attempt; to apply.
To affect.
To try tasting, as food or drink.
To subject, as an ore, alloy, or other metallic compound, to chemical or metallurgical examination, in order to determine the amount of a particular metal contained in it, or to ascertain its composition.
To attempt, try, or endeavor.
An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, -- once common in Europe, and still practiced in the East and by savage tribes.
Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience.
Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.
The act of proving; also, that which proves anything; proof.
Any proceeding designed to ascertain truth, to determine character, qualification, etc.; examination; trial; as, to engage a person on probation.
The novitiate which a person must pass in a convent, to probe his or her virtue and ability to bear the severities of the rule.
The trial of a ministerial candidate's qualifications prior to his ordination, or to his settlement as a pastor.
Moral trial; the state of man in the present life, in which he has the opportunity of proving his character, and becoming qualified for a happier state.