babaláṣẹ
noun
/bā.bā.lá.ʃɛ̄/
Definitions
- Candomblé high priest, the highest priest of a given worship house.
Etymology
From baba (“father”) + oní (“one who has”) + àṣẹ (“power”), literally “Father of the power”.
Component words
Words in other languages from this one
These are words in other languages that came from this Yorùbá word, mostly through trade, the Atlantic slave trade, and contact with neighbouring languages.
They are not translations. A word here means what it means in its own language, which may have drifted a long way from the Yorùbá it started as.
babalaxéPortuguese
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “babalaṣẹ”.
Reference:
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