From Proto-Indo-European *suH-.
*suH- m
- pig, swine, hog
- *suHkás
- Proto-Iranian: *huHkáh
- Northwestern Iranian:
- Baluchi: ہوک (hūk), ہیک (hīk)
- Proto-Medo-Parthian: *hukáh
- Gilaki: خوک (xūk)
- Karingani: خوق (xōq)
- Ashtiani: خوکه (xùkka)
- Parthian: (/hūg/)
- Manichaean script: 𐫍𐫇𐫃 (hwg)
- → Old Armenian: խոզ (xoz) (Perhaps)
- Southwestern Iranian:
- Middle Persian: (/hūg/)
- Manichaean script: 𐫍𐫇𐫃 (hwg)
- Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (HZWLYA), [Book Pahlavi needed] (hwk')
- Classical Persian: خوگ (xūg)
- Dari: خوک (xūk)
- Iranian Persian: خوک (xūk)
- Old Sistani dialect خوا (xwā ~ xū'ā) (Only mentioned in the Qur'an-i Quds as the oldest New Persian translation of Qur'an)
- Tajik: хук (xuk)
- Kurdish:
- → Central Kurdish: خووگ (xûg /xūg/)
- → Northern Kurdish: xûg (/xūg/), hûg (/hūg/), xûk (/xūk/)
- → Pashto: خوګ (xug)
- → Sarikoli: hɛwg (xäwg /xɛu̯g/)
- → Sanglechi: [script needed] (xūg, “boar”)
- → Urdu: خوک (xūk)
- → Wakhi: (/xüg/)
- Arabic script: خؤگ
- Cyrillic script: хуг (xug)
- → Yagnobi: хуг (xūg)
- *suHkarás
- Proto-Indo-Aryan: *suHkarás
- Sanskrit: सूकर (sūkará) (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Iranian: *huH-
- Central Iranian:
- Northeastern Iranian:
- Khotanese: [script needed] (hva)
- Ossetian: хуы (x°y)
- Northwestern Iranian:
- Proto-Medo-Parthian:
- Gurani: خوو (xû /xū/)
- Old Mazanderani: خو (xū)
- Lasgerdi: خو (xū)
- Sangisari: خؤ (xü)
- Semnani: خی (xī)