chef
Dutch (Brabantic)
/ʃɛf/
noun
Definitions
- A boss, chief, head, leader.
- A culinary chef, a head cook.
- Short for a title including chef.
Etymology
Borrowed from French chef (chief, boss, patron, leader).
Origin
French
chef
Gloss
chief, boss, patron, leader
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
長
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- chef English
- chief English
- caput Latin
- Chef German
- chef Italian
- chef-kok Dutch, Flemish
- cheffin Dutch, Flemish
- kok Dutch, Flemish
- staf Dutch, Flemish
- stafchef Dutch, Flemish
- chef French
- cheffer French
- derechef French
- sous-chef French
- шеф Russian
- chef Spanish, Castilian
- jefe Spanish, Castilian
- chef Portuguese
- chefe Portuguese
- chef Swedish
- シェフ Japanese
- szef Polish
- chef Danish
- šéf Czech
- chief Old French
- ĉefo Esperanto
- xef Catalan, Valencian
- xefe Galician
- sep Indonesian
- şef Turkish
- sếp Vietnamese
- Chef Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- chief Middle French
- שף Hebrew (modern)
- шеф Macedonian
- xefe Asturian
- cifal Volapük
- chèf Haitian, Haitian Creole
- şef Crimean Tatar
- şeflik Crimean Tatar