 Chorbaji

Chorbaji (sometimes variously transliterated as tchorbadji, chorbadzhi, 
tschorbadji) (,) was a military rank of the corps of Janissaries in the Ottoman Empire, used for the commander of an "orta" (regiment), i.e., approximately corresponding to the rank of colonel.The word is pronounced in Turkish and literally means "soup cook", derived from "çorba", "soup".