Afrikaans: baas (bahs)
Albanian: shef (shehf)
Amharic: አለቃ (ah-le-ka)
Arabic: رئيس (ra-eess)
Armenian: ղեկավար (ged-ah-var)
Azerbaijani: müdir (muh-deer)
Basque: nagusi (nah-goo-see)
Belarusian: начальнік (nah-chahl-neek)
Bengali: বস (bosh)
Bosnian: šef (shehf)
Bulgarian: шеф (shehf)
Burmese: မန်နေဂျာ (man-nay-jah)
Catalan: cap (kahp)
Cebuano: boss (bos)
Chinese (Mandarin): 老板 (lao-ban)
Croatian: šef (shehf)
Czech: šéf (shehf)
Danish: chef (shehf)
Dutch: baas (bahs)
Esperanto: ĉefo (cheh-foh)
Estonian: ülemus (oo-leh-moos)
Finnish: pomo (po-mo)
French: patron (pah-tron)
Galician: xefe (sheh-feh)
Georgian: ბოსი (bo-see)
German: Chef (shehf)
Greek: αφεντικό (ah-fehn-dee-koh)
Gujarati: બોસ (bohs)
Haitian Creole: bòs (bohs)
Hausa: shugaba (shoo-gah-bah)
Hebrew: בוס (bos)
Hindi: बॉस (bos)
Hungarian: főnök (foe-nok)
Icelandic: yfirmaður (eev-er-mah-dhur)
Igbo: onye isi (oh-nye ee-see)
Indonesian: bos (bos)
Irish: boss (bos)
Italian: capo (kah-poh)
Japanese: ボス (boh-su)
Javanese: bos (bos)
Kannada: ಬಾಸ್ (baas)
Kazakh: бастығы (bas-ty-ghy)
Khmer: ចៅហ្វាយ (chow-fie)
Korean: 상사 (sang-sa)
Kurdish: serok (seh-rok)
Kyrgyz: башчы (bash-chee)
Lao: ຫົວໜ້າ (hua na)
Latvian: priekšnieks (pryek-shn-eeks)
Lithuanian: bosas (bo-sas)
Luxembourgish: Chef (shehf)
Macedonian: шеф (shehf)
Malagasy: lehibeny (lay-hee-beh-nee)
Malay: bos (bos)
Malayalam: ബോസ് (bos)
Maltese: kap (kahp)
Maori: rangatira (rah-nah-tee-rah)
Marathi: बॉस (bos)
Mongolian: дарга (dar-ga)
Nepali: मालिक (ma-lik)
Norwegian: sjef (shehf)
Odia: ବସ (bos)
Pashto: ریس (reys)
Persian: رئیس (ra-eess)
Polish: szef (shehf)
Portuguese: chefe (shehf)
Punjabi: ਬੌਸ (boss)
Romanian: șef (shehf)
Russian: начальник (nah-chahl-neek)
Samoan: pule (poo-leh)
Serbian: шеф (shehf)
Shona: mukuru (moo-koo-roo)
Sinhala: ලොක්කා (lok-ka)
Slovak: šéf (shehf)
Slovenian: šef (shehf)
Somali: madaxa (mah-dah-ha)
Spanish: jefe (heh-feh)
Sundanese: bos (bos)
Swahili: bosi (bo-see)
Swedish: chef (shehf)
Tagalog: boss (bos)
Tajik: роҳбар (roh-bar)
Tamil: முதலாளர் (moo-tha-laa-lar)
Telugu: బాస్ (bos)
Thai: เจ้านาย (jao-nai)
Tigrinya: ባለቤት (ba-leh-beet)
Turkish: patron (pah-tron)
Turkmen: başlyk (bash-lyk)
Ukrainian: бос (bos)
Urdu: باس (bos)
Uzbek: boshliq (bosh-leeq)
Vietnamese: ông chủ (ohng choo)
Welsh: pennaeth (pen-nayth)
Wolof: ndigël (n-di-ghel)
Xhosa: umphathi (oom-pah-tee)
Yiddish: שעף (shehf)
Yoruba: olori (oh-loh-ree)
Zulu: umphathi (oom-pah-tee)