babalorixá
Portuguese, noun/ˌba.ba.lo.ɾiˈʃa/
babalorixá is spelled B-A-B-A-L-O-R-I-X-Á (10 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese, the 104,744th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Babalorixá is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “Candomblé priest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “autoridade máxima no candomblé”.
What does babalorixá mean in English?
noun
- 1
BrazilmasculineCandomblé priest
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. autoridade máxima no candomblé
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 babalorixá
- babalorixás plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce babalorixá?
- Brazil /ˌba.ba.lo.ɾiˈʃa/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is babalorixá in Portuguese?
babalorixá appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).