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Is power a noun or verb?

power (noun) power (verb) power (adjective) power–assisted steering (noun) powered (adjective)

What is the noun form of power?

/ˈpaʊər/ control. [uncountable] the ability to control people or things power (over somebody/something) The aim is to give people more power over their own lives. power (to do something) He has the power to make things very unpleasant for us.

Is power a concept?

Power as a Relational Concept: Power exists in relationships. The issue here is often how much relative power a person has in comparison to one’s partner. Power as Resource Based: Power usually represents a struggle over resources.

What is the adjective of power?

having great power, authority, or influence; mighty: a powerful nation.

What type of word is power?

noun. ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something. political or national strength: the balance of power in Europe. great or marked ability to do or act; strength; might; force. the possession of control or command over people; authority; ascendancy: Words have tremendous power over our minds.

Is powerful a adjective or noun?

Having, or capable of exerting power, potency or influence.

Can Powerful be a noun?

(social) Ability to coerce, influence or control. Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction). (metonymy) (chiefly in the plural) The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.

How do you describe someone in a positive way?

Affable — He’s easy to talk to. Agreeable — He’s enjoyable to talk to. Amiable — He’s friendly and nice. Charming — He has a “magic” effect that makes people like him.

What do you call someone that makes you laugh?

The person who makes others laugh is commonly known as a comedian or a joker.

How do you say someone is fun?

fun

amusing.
enjoyable.
entertaining.
lively.
pleasant.
boisterous.
convivial.
merry.

How do you describe a cheerful person?

peppy, bright, effervescent, buoyant, sanguine, jolly, lighthearted, rosy, upbeat, joyful, sunny, pleasant, merry, cheery, jaunty, enthusiastic, good-natured, chipper, perky, animated.

What is it called when you make someone happy?

gratify. verb. formal to make someone feel pleased and satisfied.

What to say instead of you make me happy?

25 Ways to Say “Thank You for Making Me Happy”

Just seeing you makes me very happy!
You let me know happiness, so I don’t regret meeting you at all.
The happiness that you have shown me deserves appreciation.
Without you in my life, I wouldn’t know what happiness is.
I don’t know how, but you always make me happy.

How do you make a girl smile in one word?

Here are some sweet things to say to your girlfriend to make her happy: “I’m so grateful for a heart sweet as yours.” “You shine brighter than the stars.” “I knew that I wanted you to be mine the moment I met you.”

How do you make smile?

20 Ways To Make Someone Smile

Send some flowers to your partner at work.
Compliment a friend or work colleague on their appearance.
Donate something to charity.
Take a friend out to lunch.
Let someone know you miss them.
Make a surprise telephone call to your partner at work, just to say hi.

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English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

powre (obsolete)

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English power, poer, from Old French poeir, from Vulgar Latin potēre, from Latin posse, whence English potent. Compare Modern French pouvoir. Displaced the native Old English anweald.

Pronunciation[edit]

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpaʊə(ɹ)/, /ˈpaʊ.ə(ɹ)/
- (with triphthong smoothing) IPA^(key): /paə/, /paː/, /pɑː/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpaʊ.ɚ/, /ˈpaʊɹ/, [ˈpʰaʊ̯.ɚ], [ˈpʰaʊ̯ɹ]
Rhymes: -aʊ.ə(ɹ), -aʊə(ɹ)
Hyphenation: pow‧er

Noun[edit]

power (countable and uncountable, plural powers)

The ability to do or undergo something.
- 2018, Marilyn McCord Adams, Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God, page 74:
  
  If it is spirits who have power to suffer, it seems they would also have active powers to think and will.
(social) The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
- 2022 March 8, “Magistrate Yang Wen-ke Sends Female Staff in Hsinchu County Government Roses for Their Contributions”, in HsinChu County Government‎^[1], archived from the original on 19 July 2022:
  
  The proportion of female colleagues in the Hsinchu County Government and its affiliated units has reached 61%. “Women Power” is the power behind over half of the services provided by the county government.
1. (countable) The ability to affect or influence.
  - An incident which happened about this time will set the characters of these two lads more fairly before the discerning reader than is in the power of the longest dissertation.
  - 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book iii:
    
    Thwackum, on the contrary, maintained that the human mind, since the fall, was nothing but a sink of iniquity, till purified and redeemed by grace. […] The favourite phrase of the former, was the natural beauty of virtue; that of the latter, was the divine power of grace.
  - 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎^[2]:
    
    “ […] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. […]”
  - 1998, Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now:
    
    Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present.
2. Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction).
  - 1949, Eric Blair, aka George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four:
    
    The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. […] We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
  - 2005, Columbia Law Review, April
    
    In the face of expanding federal power, California in particular struggled to maintain control over its Chinese population.
  - 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
    
    It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
3. (metonymically, chiefly in the plural) The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.
  
  Synonym: powers that be
  - 1978 November 17, The Star Wars Holiday Special‎^[3] (Science Fiction), →OCLC, spoken by Carrie Fisher, 1:30:50 from the start:
    
    No matter how different we appear, we’re all the same in our struggle against the powers of evil and darkness. I hope that this day will always be a day of joy in which we can reconfirm our dedication and our courage and more than anything else, our love for one another. This is the promise of the Tree of Life.
4. (metonymically) An influential nation, company, or other such body.
  - 2013 August 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 8:
    
    Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world’s deepest valleys.
5. (metonymically, archaic) An army, a military force.
  - c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene i:
    
    Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’d
    And cloſde in compaſſe of the killing bullet,
    Though ſtraite the paſſage and the port be made,
    That leads to Pallace of my brothers life,
    Proud is his fortune if we pierce it not.
(physical, uncountable) Effectiveness.
1. Physical force or strength.
  
  He needed a lot of power to hit the ball out of the stadium.
3. Electricity or a supply of electricity.
  
  After the pylons collapsed, this town was without power for a few days.
  - 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎^[4]:
    
    “My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up. […] You preserve water in times of flood and freshet to be used for power or for irrigation throughout the year. […]”
  - 2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
    
    [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
4. A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy.
5. The strength by which a lens or mirror magnifies an optical image.
  
  We need a microscope with higher power.
(colloquial, dated) A large amount or number.
- 1872, Mark Twain, Roughing It:
  
  Don’t you mind my snuffling a little—becuz we’re in a power of trouble.
Any of the elementary forms or parts of machines: three primary (the lever, inclined plane, and pulley) and three secondary (the wheel-and-axle, wedge, and screw).

the mechanical powers
(physics, mechanics) A measure of the effectiveness that a force producing a physical effect has over time. If linear, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the displacement of or in an object) ÷ time. If rotational, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the angle of displacement) ÷ time.
(mathematics)
2. A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion): ${displaystyle x^{n}}$ , read as « to the power of » or the like, is called a power and denotes the product , where appears times in the product; is called the base and the exponent.
3. (set theory) Cardinality.
4. (statistics) The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.
(biblical, in the plural) In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.

Synonyms[edit]

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aptitude
arm
authority
capability
capacity
clout
command
competence
competency
control
dominion
energy
force
grip
hold
influence
main
mastery
might
muscle
potency
pull
sinew
strength
sway
vigor
wald
weight

Antonyms[edit]

impotence
weakness

Hyponyms[edit]

atomic power
black power
candlepower
colonial power
empower
firepower
flower power
gray power
grey power
hard power
horsepower
hyperpower
institutional power
moral power
nuclear power
omnipower
optical power
personal power
political power
poor power
running powers
sea power
social power
soft power
solar power
superpower
white power
wind power

Derived terms[edit]

candlepower
empower
horsepower
in power
more power to someone, more power to your elbow
non-powerlike
power alley
power animal
power assist
power ballad
power base
power behind the throne
power board
power bottom
power box
power breakfast
power brick
power broker
power cable
power car
power chord
power clean
power cod
power coffee
power consumption
power cord
Power County
power couple
power creep
power cut
power dissipation
power distance
power dive
power domain
power down
power dresser
power drill
power dynamics
power egg, power-egg
power excursion
power factor
power failure
power feminism
Power Five
power forward
power function
power gamer
power gap
power grab
power grid
power hand
power harrow
power hitter
power hockey
power hour
power in the land
power inverter
power jam
power kite
power law
power lead
power lead
power level
power line
power line communication
power loom
power lunch
power metal
power mic
power mike
power move
power nap
power noise
power of appointment
power of attorney
power of termination
power of the pencil
power of the purse
power of yet
power pack
power pill
power plant
power point
power pole
power politics
power pop
power projection
power rack
power saw
power series
power set
power source
power station
power strip
power stroke
power structure
power struggle
power struggle
power supply
power tap
power tie
power to gas
power tool
power top
power tower
power trip
power unit
power unit
power user
power user
power vacuum
power walk
power wall
power word
power-associative algebra
power-cycle
power-hungry
power-operated
Powerball
powerful
powerhead
powerless
powerlike
powerline, power line
powerplay, power play
powers that be
powersharing, power-sharing, power sharing
powertrip, power-trip, power trip
rest in power
superpower
will to power

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possible
potent

Collocations[edit]

Adjectives often used with «power»

electric, nuclear, optical, mechanical, political, absolute, corporate, institutional, military, economic, solar, magic, magical, huge, physical, mental, intellectual, emotional, spiritual, sexual, seductive, coercive, erotic, natural, cultural, positive, negative, etc.

Descendants[edit]

→ German: Power
→ Welsh: pŵer

Translations[edit]

capability or influence

Aklanon: gahom
Albanian: pushtet (sq) m, fuqi (sq)
Arabic: قُوَّة‎ (ar) f (quwwa)

Egyptian Arabic: قوة‎ f (qowa, ʾowa)

Hijazi Arabic: قوة‎ f (guwwa)
Armenian: իշխանություն (hy) (išxanutʿyun)
Aromanian: puteare f
Avar: гуж (guž)
Azerbaijani: güc (az), qüdrət (az), qüvvə (az)
Bashkir: ҡеүәт (qewät)
Belarusian: ўла́да f (ŭláda), ула́да f (uláda)
Bikol Central: urag
Bulgarian: власт (bg) f (vlast)
Burmese: အာဏာ (my) (ana)
Catalan: poder (ca) m
Cebuano: gahom
Chinese:

Mandarin: 權力／权力 (zh) (quánlì), 權限／权限 (zh) (quánxiàn), 勢力／势力 (zh) (shìlì) (influence), 势力 (zh) (shìli)
Czech: moc (cs) f
Danish: magt c
Dutch: macht (nl) f
Egyptian: (wsrw)
Esperanto: potenco (eo), povo
Estonian: võim
Extremaduran: poel
Finnish: valta (fi), vaikutusvalta (fi), mahti (fi)
French: pouvoir (fr) m, puissance (fr) f
Friulian: podè
Galician: poder (gl)
Georgian: ძალაუფლება (ʒalaupleba), გავლენა (gavlena)
German: Macht (de) f, Kraft (de) f
Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌳𐌿𐍆𐌽𐌹 n (waldufni)
Greek: ισχύς (el) f (ischýs)
Guaraní: pu’aka
Haitian Creole: pouvwa
Hebrew: כוח כֹּחַ‎ (he) m (kóakh)
Hindi: शक्ति (hi) f (śakti)
Hungarian: hatalom (hu)
Ido: povo (io)
Indonesian: kekuasaan (id)
Irish: cumas (ga) m
Italian: potere (it) m, influenza (it) f
Japanese: 力 (ja) (ちから, chikara), 権力 (ja) (けんりょく, kenryoku), 勢力 (ja) (せいりょく, seiryoku)
Kazakh: билік (kk) (bilık)
Khmer: អំណាច (km) (ʼɑmnaac)
Korean: 힘 (ko) (him), 권력(權力) (ko) (gwollyeok), 세력(勢力) (ko) (seryeok)
Kurdish:

Central Kurdish: توانا‎ (ckb) (twana)

Northern Kurdish: hêz (ku) f, qewet (ku) f, zever (ku) f
Kyrgyz: бийлик (ky) (biylik)
Lao: ອາຍາ (ʼā nyā), ອາດຊະຍາ (ʼāt sa nyā), ອຳນາດ (ʼam nāt)
Latgalian: vaļde f, vare f
Latin: potestas (la) f, facultas (la) f, potentia, ars (la) f
Latvian: vara (lv) f
Lithuanian: valdžia (lt) f
Macedonian: моќ f (moḱ), власт f (vlast)
Malagasy: fianjadiana (mg)
Manchu: ᡨᠣᠣᠰᡝ (toose)
Maori: please add this translation if you can
Mbyá Guaraní: po’aka
Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian:

Cyrillic: чадвар (mn) (čadvar)
Mòcheno: kròft f
Norwegian:

Bokmål: makt (no) m or f, innflytelse (no) m
Occitan: poder (oc) m
Old Church Slavonic:

Cyrillic: власть f (vlastĭ)
Old East Slavic: волость f (volostĭ)
Old English: anweald m
Old Prussian: warē
Pashto: قدرت‎ (ps) m (qodrat), قوت‎ (ps) m (quwat)
Persian: قدرت‎ (fa) (qodrat), قوت‎ (fa) (qovvat)
Plautdietsch: Krauft f
Polish: władza (pl) f, moc (pl) f, możność (pl) f
Portuguese: poder (pt) m
Romanian: putere (ro) f
Russian: власть (ru) f (vlastʹ), влия́ние (ru) n (vlijánije)
Scottish Gaelic: cumhachd m or f
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: вла̑ст f

Roman: vlȃst (sh) f
Sicilian: putiri (scn) m
Slovak: moc f
Slovene: moč (sl) f
Southern Altai: тап (tap), кӱч (küč)
Spanish: poder (es) m
Swahili: nguvu (sw)
Swedish: makt (sv) c
Tajik: қудрат (tg) (qudrat), қувва (quvva)
Tausug: kusug
Telugu: పలుకుబడి (te) (palukubaḍi)
Thai: อำนาจ (th) (am-nâat)
Tocharian B: maiyyo
Turkish: güç (tr), kuvvet (tr)
Turkmen: güýç
Ugaritic: 𐎓𐎇 (ʿz)
Ukrainian: вла́да (uk) f (vláda)
Urdu: شکتی‎ f (śakti), قوت‎ f (quvvat)
Uyghur: قۇدرەت‎ (qudret), قۇۋۋەت‎ (quwwet)
Uzbek: qudrat (uz), quvvat (uz)
Vietnamese: quyền lực (vi)
Volapük: please add this translation if you can
Welsh: pŵer (cy) m

control, particularly legal or political

Arabic: قُوَّة‎ (ar) f (quwwa)
Armenian: իշխանություն (hy) (išxanutʿyun)
Belarusian: ула́да f (uláda)
Bikol Central: urag
Bulgarian: власт (bg) f (vlast)
Burmese: အာဏာ (my) (ana)
Chinese:

Mandarin: 政權／政权 (zh) (zhèngquán)
Czech: moc (cs) f
Dutch: macht (nl) f
Egyptian: (wsrw)
Extremaduran: poel
Finnish: valta (fi), valtuus (fi)
French: pouvoir (fr) m
Galician: poder (gl) m
Georgian: ძალაუფლება (ʒalaupleba)
German: Macht (de) f
Greek: ισχύς (el) f (ischýs)

Ancient: κράτος n (krátos)
Hebrew: כוח כֹּחַ‎ (he) m (kóakh) סַמְכוּת‎ (he) f (samkhút), שלטון‎ m (shiltón)
Hungarian: hatalom (hu)
Italian: potere (it) m
Japanese: 勢力 (ja) (せいりょく, seiryoku)
Khmer: ការត្រួតត្រា (km) (kaa truət traa), អំណាច (km) (ʼɑmnaac)
Korean: 세력(勢力) (ko) (seryeok)
Lao: ອຳນາດ (ʼam nāt)
Latin: potestās (la) f
Latvian: vara (lv) f
Lithuanian: valdžia (lt) f, galia (lt) f
Macedonian: власт f (vlast)
Middle English: empire, emperie
Ngazidja Comorian: ezi class 9
Old Church Slavonic:

Cyrillic: власть f (vlastĭ)
Old East Slavic: волость f (volostĭ)
Old English: anweald m
Persian: قدرت‎ (fa) (qodrat), قوت‎ (fa) (qovvat)
Polish: władza (pl) f
Portuguese: poder (pt) m
Romanian: putere (ro) f
Russian: власть (ru) f (vlastʹ), могущество (ru) n (moguščestvo)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: вла̑ст f

Roman: vlȃst (sh) f
Sicilian: putiri (scn) m
Slovak: moc f
Slovene: moč (sl) f
Swedish: makt (sv) c
Thai: อำนาจ (th) (am-nâat)
Ukrainian: вла́да (uk) f (vláda)
Vietnamese: thế lực (vi)
Welsh: pŵer (cy) m

influential nation, company etc.

Armenian: տերություն (hy) (terutʿyun)
Bulgarian: си́ла (bg) f (síla)
Catalan: potència (ca) f
Chinese:

Mandarin: 強國／强国 (zh) (qiángguó)
Czech: mocnost f
Dutch: grootmacht (nl), mogendheid (nl) f
Finnish: suurvalta (nation); suuryhtiö (company); voimatekijä, mahti (fi), mahtitekijä (general)
Galician: potencia f
German: Macht (de) f, Großmacht (de) f
Greek: δύναμη (el) f (dýnami)
Hebrew: מַעֲצָמָה‎ (he) f (ma’atsamá), עוצמה‎ f (‘otsmá)
Hungarian: hatalom (hu)
Irish: cumhacht f
Italian: potenza (it) f
Japanese: 権力 (ja) (けんりょく, kenryoku), 勢力 (ja) (せいりょく, seiryoku), 強国 (ja) (きょうこく, kyōkoku), 列強 (ja) (れっきょう, rekkyō)
Korean: 강국(強國) (gangguk)
Kurdish:

Northern Kurdish: hêz (ku) f, zilhêz (ku) f
Latin: potentia f
Latvian: lielvalsts m
Macedonian: сила f (sila)
Malagasy: hery am-piharian-karena
Norwegian:

Bokmål: makt (no) m or f
Persian: قدرت‎ (fa) (qodrat)
Polish: mocarstwo (pl) n, potęga (pl) f
Portuguese: potência (pt) f
Romanian: putere (ro) f
Russian: держа́ва (ru) f (deržáva), си́ла (ru) f (síla)
Sicilian: putènzia f
Slovak: mocnosť f
Slovene: sila (sl) f
Spanish: potencia (es) f
Telugu: సైనికబలము (sainikabalamu), ఆర్ధికబలము (ārdhikabalamu)

physical force or strength

Arabic: قُوَّة‎ (ar) f (quwwa), طَاقَة‎ (ar) f (ṭāqa)
Armenian: ուժ (hy) (už)
Albanian: fuqi (sq)
Aromanian: puteari, puteare f, fortsã f, dinami, vãrtuti f
Azerbaijani: güc (az)
Bashkir: көс (kös)
Bengali: জোর (bn) (jōr), তাকত (takot)
Bulgarian: си́ла (bg) f (síla)
Catalan: poder (ca) m, potència (ca) f
Chinese:

Mandarin: 力量 (zh) (lìliang), 能量 (zh) (néngliàng), 功率 (zh) (gōnglǜ)
Czech: síla (cs) f
Dutch: kracht (nl) f
Esperanto: potenco (eo)
Estonian: jõud
Extremaduran: poel
Fiji Hindi: taagat (hif)
Finnish: voima (fi), vahvuus (fi), voimakkuus (fi)
French: puissance (fr) f
Galician: forza (gl) f
Georgian: ძალა (ʒala), ღონე (ka) (ɣone)
German: Kraft (de) f, Stärke (de) f
Greek: δύναμη (el) f (dýnami)

Ancient: δύναμις f (dúnamis)
Hebrew: כוח כֹּחַ‎ (he) m (kóakh)
Hindi: शक्ति (hi) f (śakti), बल (hi) (bal), ताक़त (tāqat)
Hungarian: erő (hu)
Indonesian: kekuatan (id)
Irish: cumhacht f
Italian: potenza (it) f, forza (it) f
Japanese: 力 (ja) (ちから, chikara)
Khmer: កម្លាំង (km) (kɑmlang)
Korean: 힘 (ko) (him), 역량(力量) (ko) (yeongnyang)
Kurdish:

Central Kurdish: زەبر‎ (ckb) (zebir), قووەت‎ (quwet)

Northern Kurdish: hêz (ku) f, qewet (ku) f, zever (ku) f
Kyrgyz: күч (ky) (küç)
Latgalian: spāks
Latin: potentia f, vis (la) f
Latvian: spēks (lv)
Lithuanian: jėga f, galia (lt) f
Macedonian: сила f (sila), моќ f (moḱ)
Malagasy: hery (mg)
Malay: kuasa (ms)
Maranao: menang
Norwegian:

Bokmål: kraft (no) m or f
Oromo: humna
Persian: قدرت‎ (fa) (qodrat), زور‎ (fa) (zur), نیرو‎ (fa) (niru)
Plautdietsch: Krauft f
Polish: siła (pl) f
Portuguese: força (pt) f, potência (pt) f
Romanian: putere (ro) f, forță (ro) f, tărie (ro) f
Russian: си́ла (ru) f (síla), мощь (ru) f (moščʹ) (obsolete), дурь (ru) f (durʹ) (colloquial)
Sanskrit: बल (sa) n (bala), सहस् (sa) n (sahas)
Sicilian: putènzia f, forza (scn) f
Sidamo: wolqa
Slovak: sila f
Slovene: moč (sl) f
Somali: quwad, xoog
Spanish: potencia (es) f, poder (es) m
Swahili: nguvu (sw)
Swedish: kraft (sv) c
Tagalog: lakas (tl)
Telugu: శక్తి (te) (śakti), బలము (te) (balamu)
Thai: แรง (th) (rɛɛng), กำลัง (th) (gam-lang)
Tocharian B: warkṣäl
Turkish: güç (tr)
Urdu: طاقت‎, قوت‎, شکتی‎ f (śakti)
Welsh: pŵer (cy) m
Yakut: күүс (küüs)

electricity, electricity supply

Arabic: طَاقَة كَهْرَبَائِيَّة‎ f (ṭāqa kahrabāʾiyya)
Armenian: էլեկտրականություն (hy) (ēlektrakanutʿyun), հոսանք (hy) (hosankʿ) (colloquially)
Belarusian: электры́чнасць f (eljektrýčnascʹ), эне́ргія f (enjérhija), энэ́ргія f (enérhija), ток m (tok)
Bulgarian: мо́щност (bg) f (móštnost)
Burmese: အာနုဘော် (my) (anu.bhau)
Chinese:

Mandarin: 電力／电力 (zh) (diànlì)
Czech: elektřina (cs) f, proud (cs) m
Danish: elektricitet (da) c, el (da) c, strøm (da) c, kraft (da) c
Dutch: voeding (nl) m, toevoer (nl) m, stroom (nl) m, (These may all be preceded by elektrische) spanning (nl) f, elektriciteit (nl) f
Faroese: streymur m
Finnish: sähkö (fi) (electricity); sähköt (fi) pl, sähkönsyöttö, virta (fi) (supply)
French: électricité (fr) f, courant (fr) m
Galician: corrente (gl) f, luz (gl) f, electricidade (gl) f
Georgian: დენი (deni)
German: Strom (de) m, Energie (de) f
Greek: ρεύμα (el) f (révma), ηλεκτρισμός (el) m (ilektrismós)
Hebrew: חַשְׁמַל‎ (he) m (khashmál)
Indonesian: daya (id)
Italian: elettricità (it) f, corrente (it) f, energia (it) f
Japanese: 電力 (ja) (でんりょく, denryoku)
Khmer: ថាមពល (km) (thaamaʼpŭəl)
Korean: 전력(電力) (ko) (jeollyeok)
Kurdish:

Central Kurdish: کارەبا‎ (ckb) (kareba)

Northern Kurdish: hêz (ku) f, kareba (ku) f, elektrîk (ku) f
Lao: ໄຟຟ້າ (lo) (fai fā), ພະລັງງານ (lo) (pha lang ngān)
Latgalian: elektreja f
Latvian: elektrība f
Macedonian: електриците́т m (elektricitét), струја f (struja)
Malagasy: herinaratra (mg)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: kraft (no) m
Polish: zasilanie (pl) n
Portuguese: força (pt) f, corrente (pt) f, eletricidade (pt) f
Romanian: electricitate (ro) f, curent electric (ro) m
Russian: электри́чество (ru) n (elektríčestvo), ток (ru) m (tok) (colloquial), пита́ние (ru) n (pitánije), эне́ргия (ru) f (enɛ́rgija)
Sicilian: currenti f, enirgìa f, elittricità f
Spanish: corriente (es) f, electricidad (es) f
Swedish: elektricitet (sv) c, el (sv) c, kraft (sv) c, ström (sv) c
Telugu: కరెంటు (kareṇṭu), కరెంట్ (kareṇṭ)
Thai: ไฟ (th) (fai), ไฟฟ้า (th) (fai-fáa), พลังงาน (th) (pá-lang-ngaan)
Ukrainian: еле́ктрика f (eléktryka), ене́ргія f (enérhija), струм m (strum), електроене́ргія f (elektroenérhija), електропостача́ння n (elektropostačánnja)
Vietnamese: điện lực (vi)

physics: measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy

Armenian: հզորություն (hy) (hzorutʿyun)
Bashkir: ҡеүәт (qewät)
Belarusian: пату́жнасць f (patúžnascʹ)
Bulgarian: мо́щност (bg) f (móštnost)
Chinese:

Mandarin: 功率 (zh) (gōnglǜ)
Czech: výkon (cs) m
Dutch: vermogen (nl)
Esperanto: povumo
Estonian: võimsus
Finnish: teho (fi)
French: puissance (fr) f
Galician: potencia f
German: Leistung (de) f
Greek: ισχύς (el) f (ischýs)
Hebrew: הֶסְפֵּק‎ (he) m (hespék)
Hungarian: teljesítmény (hu)
Italian: potenza (it) f
Japanese: 仕事率 (ja) (しごとりつ, shigotoritsu)
Korean: 일률(率) (ko) (illyul)
Kurdish:

Northern Kurdish: hêz (ku) f
Latin: potentia f
Macedonian: моќ f (moḱ)
Malagasy: herin’angôvo
Malay: kuasa (ms)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: kraft (no) m or f, effekt m
Persian: توان‎ (fa) (tavân)
Polish: moc (pl) f
Portuguese: potência (pt) f
Romanian: putere (ro) f, randament (ro) n, potență (ro) f
Russian: мо́щность (ru) f (móščnostʹ)
Sicilian: putènzia f
Slovak: sila f
Slovene: moč (sl) f
Spanish: potencia (es) f
Swedish: effekt (sv) c
Tagalog: isog
Thai: กำลัง (th) (gam-lang), พลัง (th) (pá-lang)
Turkish: güç (tr)
Ukrainian: поту́жність f (potúžnistʹ)

physics: rate to magnify an optical image

Belarusian: пату́жнасць f (patúžnascʹ)
Bulgarian: увеличе́ние (bg) n (uveličénie)
Chinese:

Mandarin: 放大率 (zh) (fàngdàlǜ)
Czech: mohutnost f
Dutch: vergroting (nl) f
Finnish: suurennus (fi)
Greek: μεγεθυντική ικανότητα f (megethyntikí ikanótita)
Italian: potere (it) m
Japanese: 倍率 (ja) (ばいりつ, bairitsu)
Korean: 배율(倍率) (ko) (baeyul)
Kurdish:

Northern Kurdish: hêz (ku) f
Latgalian: veice f
Latvian: jauda f
Macedonian: моќ f (moḱ)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: forsterkning m or f
Persian: توان‎ (fa) (tavân)
Portuguese: potência (pt) f
Romanian: mărire (ro) f
Russian: мо́щность (ru) f (móščnostʹ)
Ukrainian: поту́жність f (potúžnistʹ)

maths: product of equal factors

Armenian: աստիճան (hy) (astičan)
Azerbaijani: qüvvət (az)
Bashkir: дәрәжә (däräjä)
Belarusian: ступе́нь f (stupjénʹ)
Bulgarian: сте́пен (bg) f (stépen)
Chinese:

Mandarin: 冪／幂 (zh) (mì)
Czech: mocnina (cs) f
Dutch: macht (nl) f
Esperanto: potenco (eo)
Finnish: potenssi (fi)
French: puissance (fr) f
Galician: potencia f
German: Potenz (de) f, (x hoch n)
Greek: δύναμη (el) f (dýnami)

Ancient: δύναμις f (dúnamis)
Hebrew: חֶזְקָה‎ (he) f (khezká)
Hungarian: hatvány (hu)
Irish: cumhacht f
Italian: potenza (it) f
Japanese: 乗 (ja) (じょう, jō), 冪 (ja) (べき, beki), 累乗 (ja) (るいじょう, ruijō), 冪乗 (べきじょう, bekijō)
Korean: 거듭제곱 (geodeupjegop)
Kurdish:

Northern Kurdish: jorjimar f
Latin: potentia f
Macedonian: степен m (stepen)
Malagasy: toraka (mg), tora- (mg)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: potens m

Nynorsk: potens m
Persian: توان‎ (fa) (tavân)
Polish: potęga (pl) f
Portuguese: potência (pt) f
Romanian: putere (ro) f, potență (ro) f
Russian: сте́пень (ru) f (stépenʹ)
Sicilian: putènzia f
Slovak: mocnina f
Slovene: potenca f
Spanish: potencia (es) f
Swedish: potens (sv) c
Tagalog: lambal
Thai: เลขยกกำลัง
Turkish: üs (tr), kuvvet (tr)
Ukrainian: сте́пінь m (stépinʹ)

statistics: probability of correctly rejecting the null hypothesis

biblical: level of angels

Dutch: machten (nl)
Finnish: voima (fi)
Greek: δυνάμεις (el) f pl (dynámeis)
Hebrew: כֹּחַ‎ (he) m (kóach)
Italian: potenze celesti f pl
Japanese: 能天使 (のうてんし, nōtenshi)
Kurdish:

Northern Kurdish: hêz (ku) f
Portuguese: potestade (pt) m

Verb[edit]

power (third-person singular simple present powers, present participle powering, simple past and past participle powered)

(transitive) To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device).

This CD player is powered by batteries.
(transitive) To hit or kick something forcefully.
- 2011 February 1, Mandeep Sanghera, “Man Utd 3 — 1 Aston Villa”, in BBC‎^[5]:
  
  United keeper Edwin van der Sar was the unlikely provider as his clearance found Rooney, who had got ahead of last defender Richard Dunne, and the forward brilliantly controlled a ball coming from over his shoulder before powering a shot past Brad Friedel.
To enable or provide the impetus for.
- 2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in the Guardian‎^[6]:
  
  Abdul Sattar Edhi came to Karachi as a poor man from an Indian village in 1947. Starting with a small pharmacy tent, his work rapidly expanded, powered by donations from ordinary citizens.

Derived terms[edit]

empower
power down
power through
power up

Translations[edit]

to provide power for

Armenian: սնուցել (hy) (snucʿel)
Catalan: alimentar (ca)
Czech: napájet, pohánět (cs)
Dutch: voeden (nl)
Finnish: toimia (fi)
French: alimenter (fr)
Greek: κινώ (el) (kinó), τροφοδοτώ (el) (trofodotó)
Italian: alimentare (it)
Japanese: 供給する (きょうきゅうする, kyōkyū-suru)
Macedonian: напојува (napojuva)
Polish: zasilać (pl)
Portuguese: alimentar (pt)
Slovak: napájať
Slovene: napajati
Spanish: alimentar (es)
Telugu: బలపచు (balapacu)
Turkish: güç sağlamak
Welsh: pweru

to hit or kick something forcefully

Adjective[edit]

power (comparative more power, superlative most power)

(Singapore, colloquial) Impressive.
- 2001, Thian, Makan Time‎^[7]:
  
  Check out the POWER Mee Rebus & Lontong in this newly established Nasi Padang coffee shop at Market Street Carpark.
- 2005, Bayya, Bayya Eats … and Other Stuff‎^[8]:
  
  Their performance is very the Power!
- 2010, Caihong Lim & Kesheng Lim, Footprints All Over: Love, Happiness,Joy‎^[9]:
  
  His hokkien is damn power lah!
- 2015, SGMOJI, Your Ultimate Guide to Locally-Grown Emojis‎^[10], archived from the original on 4 March 2016:
  
  Eh his soccer skills damn power one.

Anagrams[edit]

powre

German[edit]