شكتی

शिƠ 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 Gaurīof Śiva, Lakshmīof Vishu, etc.); 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):—śakti-mat, śakti-mān, or śakti-mant, adj. (f. -matī), Possessed of ability, powerful, strong, mighty, able; possessing a competence:—śakti-vodhak, adj. (in Gram.) Potential:—śakti-hīn, adj. Powerless, impotent.