chef's knife

English

A chef's knife

Noun

chef's knife (plural chef's knives or chefs' knives)

1. A type of general purpose kitchen knife used for food preparation, typically measuring eight inches by one and a half inches.

Synonyms

• cook's knife

Translations

kitchen utensil

• Basque: tipula-ganibet
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 菜刀 (zh) (càidāo) (cleaver used as a chef's knife in Chinese cooking)

• Danish: kokkekniv c
• Dutch: koksmes (nl) n
• Finnish: kokkiveitsi
• French: couteau de chef (fr) m
• German: Kochmesser n
• Italian: coltello del cuoco m
• Japanese: 牛刀 (ja) (gyūtō) (western cooking); 中華包丁 (Chinese cooking)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kokkekniv (no) m

• Polish: nóż kucharski m
• Portuguese: peixeira (pt) f (Brazil)
• Russian: поварско́й нож m (povarskój nož)
• Spanish: cuchillo de chef m
• Swedish: kockkniv c
• Turkish: şef bıçağı
• Ukrainian: ку́харський ніж m (kúxarsʹkyj niž)