babalaô
Portuguese, noun/ba.ba.laˈo/
babalaô is spelled B-A-B-A-L-A-Ô (7 letters) and appears about once in every 42 million words in written Portuguese, the 183,862nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Babalaô is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “babalawo (Ifa priest)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “corruptela da palavra yorùbá babalawo sacerdote de Ifá, que pratica as artes divinatórias; é quem confirma o…”.
What does babalaô mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebabalawo (Ifa priest)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. corruptela da palavra yorùbá babalawo sacerdote de Ifá, que pratica as artes divinatórias; é quem confirma o odu e o orixá de cabeça dos neófitos
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of babalaô
- babalaôs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce babalaô?
- Brazil /ba.ba.laˈo/
- Portugal /bɐ.bɐ.lɐˈo/
- Portugal [bɐ.βɐ.lɐˈo]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to babalaô
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is babalaô in Portuguese?
babalaô appears about once in every 42 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).