میزبان

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (myzdpʾn' /⁠mēzdbān⁠/, “host”). By surface analysis, میز (miz, “table”) +‎ ـبان (-bân, “keeper, guardian”).

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میزبان • (mizbân)

1. host

• → Bengali: মেজবান (mezban)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਮੇਜ਼ਬਾਨ (mezbān)

  Shahmukhi script: میزبان (mezbān)

• → Urdu: میزْبَانْ (mezbān)
• → Uzbek: mezbon
• → Pashto: مېزبان (mēzbān)

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “mēzdbān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press

Borrowed from Classical Persian میزبان (mēzbān).

میزبان • (mezbān) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਮੇਜ਼ਬਾਨ)

1. host
2. anchorperson

Borrowed from Classical Persian میزبان (mēzbān).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /meːz.bɑːn/
• Rhymes: -ɑːn

میزْبان • (mezbān) m (Hindi spelling मेज़बान)

1. host
2. anchorperson

   Synonym: اینکرپرسن (ainkarparsan)

• “میزبان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “میزبان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.