Śakti. In Hinduism, divine power or energy personified as female, contradistinguished from the passive function attributed to the male aspect of divinity as represented in Śiva, although in a few passages of Hindu Tantric works an active function is assigned to Śiva and a passive one to Śakti.

Geddes MacGregor, Dictionary of Religion and Philosophy, New York: Paragon House, 1989

śakti: Power, potency.

Sarvastivada Abhidharma, Sanskrit-English Glossary, by Bhikkhu KL Dhammajoti

śákti or f. power, ability, strength, might, effort, energy, capability (śaktyā or ātma-ś○ or sva-ś○, 'according to ability'

Sanskrit-English Dictionary, by M. Monier William

śaktí f. power, ability, strength, might, effort, energy, capability (śaktyā or ātma-ś○ or sva-ś○, 'according to ability'

• paraṃ śaktyā, with all one's might'

• vitta-śaktyā, 'according to the capability of one's property'

• śaktim a-hāpayitvā, 'not relaxing one's efforts, exerting all one's strength'), faculty, skill, capacity for, power over (gen., loc., dat., or inf.) RV. &c. &c

• effectiveness or efficacy (of a remedy) ŚārṅgS.

• regal power (consisting of three parts, prabhutva, personal pre-eminence

• mantra, good counsel, and utsāha, energy) Kām. (cf. Ragh. iii, 13)

• the energy or active power of a deity personified as his wife and worshipped by the Śākta (q.v.) sect of Hindūs under various names (sometimes only three, sometimes eight Śakti goddesses are enumerated, as follow, Indrāṇi, Vaishṇavii, Śāntā, Brahmāṇī, Kaumāri, Nārasiṃhī, Vārāhī, and Māheśvarī, but some substitute Cāmuṇḍā and Cāṇdikā for the third and sixth of these: according to another reckoning there are nine, viz. Vaishṇavii, Brahmāṇi, Raudri, Māheśvarī, Nārasiṃhī, Vārāhī, Indraṇī, Kārttikī, and Pradhānā: others reckon fifty different forms of the Śakti of Vishṇu besides Lakshmī, some of these are Kīrtti, Kānti, Tushṭi, Pushṭā, Dhṛiti. Śānti, Kriyā, Dayā, Medhā &c

• and fifty forms of the Śakti of Śiva or Rudra besides Durgā' or Gaurī, some of whom are Guṇôdarī, Virajā, Sālmali, Lolâkshi, Vartulâkshī, Dīrgha-ghoṇā, Sudirgha-mukhī, Go-mukhī, Dirgha-jihvā, Kuṇḍôdarī, Ardha-keśī, Vikṛita-mukhī, Jvālā-mukhi, Ulkāmukhi &c

• Sarasvati is also named as a Śakti, both of Vishṇu and Rudra: according to the Vāyu-Purāṇa the female nature of Rudra became twofold, one half asita or white, and the other sita or black, each of these again becoming manifold, those of the white or mild nature included Lakshmī, Sarasvati, Gaurī, Umā &c

• those of the dark and fierce nature, Durgā, Kāli &c.) Kāv. Kathās. Pur. (cf. RTL. 181 &c. MWB. 216)

• the female organ (as worshipped by the Śākta sect either actually or symbolically) RTL. 140

• the power or signification of a word (defined in the Nyāya as padasya padârthe sambandhaḥ i.e. 'the relation of a word to the thing designated') Bhāshāp. Sāh.

• (in Gram.) case-power, the idea conveyed by a case (= kāraka) Pāṇ. 2-3, 7 Sch.

• the power or force or most effective word of a sacred text or magic formula Up. Pañcar.

• the creative power or imagination (of a poet) Kāvyâd.

• help, aid, assistance, gift, bestowal RV.

• a spear, lance, pike, dart RV. &c. (also śaktī g. bahv-ādi)

• a sword MW.

• (prob.) a flag-staff ( ratha-ś○) [Page 1044, Column 3]

• a partic. configuration of stars and planets (when the latter are situated in the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th astrological house), VirBṛS

• m. N. of a Muni or sage (the eldest of Vasishṭha's hundred sons

• accord. to VP. he was father of Parāśara, and was devoured by king Kalmāsha-pāda, when changed to a man-eating Rākshasa, in consequence of a curse pronounced upon him by the sage

• he is represented as having overcome Viśvāmitra at the sacrifice of king Saudāsa

• he is regarded as the author of RV. vii, 32, 26 ; ix, 97, 19-21 ; 108, 3 ; 14-16

• Śakti is also identified with one of the Vylāsas, and with Avalokitêśvara, and has elsewhere the patr. Jātukarna and Sāṃkṛiti) Pravar. MBh. &c

Sanskrit-English Dictionary, by M. Monier William

mthu

[translation-san] {LCh,MSA,L} prabhāva

[translation-san] {MSA} prabhāvatas

[translation-san] {LCh,MSA,C} anubhāva {C}(=sāmarthya)

[translation-san] {MSA} sāmarthya

[translation-san] {C,MSA} bala

[translation-san] {MSA} balavatva

[translation-san] {MSA} prabala

[translation-san] {MSA} ṛddhika

[translation-san] {MSA} śakti

[translation-san] {MSA} sthāman

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} power; force

[translation-eng] {C} strong; exalted; mighty; powerful; might

Jeffrey Hopkins' Tibetan-Sanskrit-English Dictionary

mthun

[translation-san] {C} anukūla

[translation-san] śakti

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} concordant; accord (with)

[translation-eng] {C} power

Jeffrey Hopkins' Tibetan-Sanskrit-English Dictionary

nus pa

[translation-san] {LCh,C,MSA} śakya

[translation-san] {MSA} śakti

[translation-san] {LCh} samartha

[translation-san] {LCh,MSA} sāmarthya

[translation-san] {GD:88} śaktiḥ

[translation-san] bāla

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} ability; potency; power; capacity

[translation-eng] {C} is possible; be able; can; lends itself to

Jeffrey Hopkins' Tibetan-Sanskrit-English Dictionary