Afrikaans – hoof (hohf)
Albanian – shef (shehf)
Amharic – አለቃ (āleḳa)
Arabic – رئيس (ra’ees)
Armenian – ղեկավար (ghekavar)
Azerbaijani – rəhbər (rehber)
Basque – buruzagi (boo-roo-zah-gee)
Belarusian – начальнік (nachal’nik)
Bengali – প্রধান (prodhan)
Bosnian – šef (shehf)
Bulgarian – шеф (shef)
Burmese – အကြီးအကဲ (a-kyī a-kèh)
Catalan – cap (kap)
Cebuano – pinuno (pee-noo-noh)
Chinese (Mandarin) – 主席 (zhǔxí)
Croatian – šef (shehf)
Czech – šéf (shehf)
Danish – chef (shayf)
Dutch – chef (shef)
Estonian – juht (yooh-t)
Fijian – turaga-ni-koro (too-rah-gah-nee-koh-roh)
Filipino – pinuno (pee-noo-noh)
Finnish – päällikkö (pah-el-lik-koh)
French – chef (shehf)
Galician – xefe (sheh-feh)
Georgian – მთავარი (mt’avari)
German – Chef (shehf)
Greek – αρχηγός (ar-hee-ghós)
Gujarati – મુખ્ય (mukhya)
Haitian Creole – chèf (shehf)
Hausa – babban (bahb-bahn)
Hebrew – מנהל (menahel)
Hindi – मुख्य (mukhya)
Hmong – tus thawj (too twah)
Hungarian – főnök (fur-nuhk)
Icelandic – yfirmaður (eer-vee-mah-thur)
Igbo – onye isi (on-yay ee-see)
Indonesian – kepala (keh-pah-lah)
Irish – ceannaire (kyan-ah-rah)
Italian – capo (kah-poh)
Japanese – 主席 (shuseki)
Javanese – pemimpin (pe-mim-pin)
Kannada – ಮುಖ್ಯ (mukhya)
Kazakh – бастық (bastyk)
Khmer – ប្រធាន (pra-tean)
Korean – 수장 (su-jang)
Kurdish – serok (seh-rohk)
Kyrgyz – башчы (bash-chi)
Lao – ຫົວໜ້າ (hua-nah)
Latvian – vadītājs (vah-dee-tah-yehs)
Lithuanian – vadovas (vah-doh-vahs)
Macedonian – шеф (shef)
Malagasy – lehibeny (leh-hee-beh-nee)
Malay – ketua (keh-too-ah)
Malayalam – മുഖ്യന് (mukyan)
Maltese – kap (kap)
Maori – rangatira (rah-ngah-tee-rah)
Marathi – मुख्य (mukhya)
Mongolian – ахлагч (akh-lahgch)
Nepali – प्रमुख (pramukh)
Norwegian – sjef (shyef)
Odia – ପ୍ରଧାନ (pradhan)
Pashto – مشر (mashar)
Persian – رئیس (ra-ees)
Polish – szef (shef)
Portuguese – chefe (sheh-fee)
Punjabi – ਮੁੱਖ (mukh)
Romanian – șef (shef)
Russian – шеф (shef)
Samoan – ta’ita’i (tah-ee-tah-ee)
Serbian – шеф (shef)
Sinhala – ප්රධානියා (pradhāniyā)
Slovak – šéf (shef)
Slovenian – šef (shef)
Somali – madaxa (mah-dah-kah)
Spanish – jefe (heh-feh)
Sundanese – pamingpin (pah-ming-peen)
Swahili – mkuu (m-koo)
Swedish – chef (shehf)
Tajik – сарвар (sarvar)
Tamil – முதன்மை (mudhanmai)
Telugu – ముఖ్య (mukhya)
Thai – หัวหน้า (hua-nah)
Tigrinya – ኣባል (a-bal)
Turkish – şef (shef)
Turkmen – başlyk (bash-lyk)
Ukrainian – начальник (nachal’nyk)
Urdu – سربراہ (sarbarah)
Uzbek – boshliq (bosh-lik)
Vietnamese – trưởng (choong)
Welsh – prif (preev)
Wolof – njiit (njeet)
Xhosa – intloko (in-tloh-koh)
Yiddish – שעף (shef)
Yoruba – olori (oh-loh-ree)
Zulu – umholi (oom-hoh-lee)