Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c9.5

c9.5

499 *b.*—The reference to **Bao** was accidentally omitted. The word is Peguan *bā* (pronounced *bā-a*), “a monastery.” The quotation from Sangermano (p. 88) runs : “There is not any village, however small, that has not one or more large wooden houses, which are a species of convent, by the Portuguese in India called **Bao**.”