A pai-de-santo or pai de santo is a male priest of Candomblé, Umbanda and Quimbanda, the Afro-Brazilian religions. In Portuguese, those words translate as "saint's father", which is a calque of the Yoruba babalorisha, a title given to the leaders of the African religions that originated the Brazilian ones. Baba means "father", and the contraction l'orisha means "of orisha". As a product of religious syncretism, the word orisha was adapted into Portuguese as "saint".