chef
/ˈt͡ʃef/ · B1 · noun · mf
chef
🧑🍳 Same as English chef, but say ch as in church: chef = CHEF
Borrowed from French chef, meaning head or chief, from Latin caput (head). Chief and chef are the same word. Spanish says the ch like church, not like English shef. It is the same for a man or a woman: el chef, la chef.