A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars).
An American fish, the silverside.
padre
noun
A Roman Catholic or Anglican priest.
A military clergyman.
How often have the words friar and padre occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )