[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c9.5 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c9.5 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c9.5 - **Language:** English ### [c9.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.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\*\*.” - [Previous: c9.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c9.4) - [Next: c9.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c9.6) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c9.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c9.5) · Pramāṇa