As a deity name
Name 746 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
Name 929 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 19 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 725 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
शक्ति · śakti · s.f.
Ability, power, capacity, capability, faculty, strength, might, main, energy, ascendancy, prowess; the energy or active power of a deity personified as his wife (as Gaurī of Śiva, Lakshmī of Vishṇu, &c.); the female organ (as the counterpart of the phallic representation of Śiva, and worshipped either literally or figuratively by a sect of Hindūs termed Sāktas) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 730
शक्ति · feminine
power, energy, potency; strength; force; ability; reach
Śabdasāgara also records: योग्य । काबिल । समर्थ · शक्तिसंपन्न । ताकतवर
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi शक्ति — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit शक्ति (śakti).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
śakti or śakti 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.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
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 god…
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M1 · same meaning "śakti" is the vocative of "śaktin" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
śakti or śakti 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, Indrāṇī, Vaiṣṇavī, Śāntā, Brahmāṇī, Kaumārī, Nārasiṃhī, Vārāhī, and Māheśvarī, but some substitute Cāmuṇḍā and Caṇḍikā for the third and sixth of these: according to another reckoning there are nine, viz. Vaiṣṇavī, Brahmāṇī, Raudrī, Māheśvarī, Nārasiṃhī, Vārāhī, Indrāṇī, Kārttikī, and Pradhānā: others reckon fifty different forms of the Śakti of Viṣṇu besides Lakṣmī, some of these are Kīrtti, Kānti, Tuṣṭi, Puṣṭā, Dhṛti, Śānti, Kriyā, Dayā, Medhā &c.; and fifty forms of the Śakti of Śiva or Rudra besides Durgā or Gaurī, some of whom are Guṇodarī, Virajā, Śālmalī, Lolākṣī, Vartulākṣī, Dīrgha-ghoṇā, Sudīrgha-mukhī, Go-mukhī, Dīrgha-jihvā, Kuṇḍodarī, Ardha-keśī, Vikṛta-mukhī, Jvālā-mukhī, Ulkāmukhī &c.; Sarasvatī is also named as a Śakti, both of Viṣṇu 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 Lakṣmī, Sarasvatī, Gaurī, Umā &c.; those of the dark and fierce nature, Durgā, Kālī &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
1. śaktin mfn. (prob.) furnished with a flag-staff, MBh. (cf. ratha-śakti).
2. śaktin m. N. of a man (= śakti, m.), MBh.
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