BAP • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Bap

... the white beads they had received, petitioned for and obtained a shukka, but under the proviso of their always assisting me to urge on the lazy porters. This they not only agreed to do, but also declared themselves willing to execute any orders I might give them: they looked upon me as their Ma, Bap (mother and father, a Hindostani expression, significant of everything, or entire dependence on one as a son on his parents), and ...

— What Led To The Discovery of the Source Of The Nile • John Hanning Speke