Janissaries; Inconsistency between their Titles and Duties

Janissaries were the most important division of the Ottoman infantry that had a significant role in the expansion of Ottoman territory and its establishment. Despite this militancy, most of the Janissaries titles were not military. Some of them were derived from the kitchen jobs, whereas their duties were not related to the kitchen duties. Another part of the titles, were hunter’s and the gundogs training group's names that indicated their job in the early Ottoman era. They gradually left their duties as haunters but kept their titles. Another part of the titles has been taken from Persian and Arabic languages that have been changed in terms of word and meaning among the Turks, so there is not any relation between the titles and their duties.