Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.653

c10.653

**BABA**, s. This is the word usually applied in Anglo-Indian families, by both Europeans and natives, to the children—often in the plural form, *bābā lōg* (*lōg* = 'folk'). The word is not used by the natives among themselves in the same way, at least not habitually; and it would seem as if our word *baby* had influenced the use.