Ilya

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Ilya
Gender male
Origin
Word/name Russian-language or alternatively Kurdish
Meaning "My god is He" (Hebrew meaning) or "great or glorious" (Kurdish meaning)
Other names
Related names Elijah, Ilija, Ilya, Iliya, Ilja, Ilyusha, Ilyushenka, Ilyich, Ilyinichna, Ali or Ilia

Ilya, Illya, Iliya, Ilja, Ilija, or Ilia (Cyrillic: Илья) is the East Slavic form of the male Hebrew name Eliyahu (Elijah), meaning "My god is He". It comes from the Byzantine Greek pronunciation of the vocative (Elia) of the Greek Elias (Ηλίας). It is pronounced with stress on the second syllable. The diminutive form is Ilyusha or Ilyushenka. The Russian patronymic for a son of Ilya is "Ilyich", and a daughter is "Ilyinichna".

Ilya is also a Kurdish name meaning great and glorious.

Famous namesakes

Real people

Mythical/Biblical figures

  • Ilya Muromets, Russian folk hero
  • Elijah, a Hebrew prophet of the ninth century BCE, known in Russian as Ilya
  • Ali or Eli (Arabic name), a cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the first Imam of shiahs

(There is a quote from Imam Ali "I am called Elya / Alya among Jews, Elia among Christians, Ali for my father, and Haydar for my mother"),[1][2]

Fictional characters

  • Ilya Pasternak, fictional character from the video game Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation
  • Illya Kuryakin, a main character in the TV show The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
  • Ilya Tretiak, a character in the 1997 film The Saint
  • Ilya in the book Letters from Rifka
  • Ilya Afanasyevich Shamrayev, a character in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull
  • Ilya Stepanovich Igolkin, a character in Vladimir Obruchev's Plutonia
  • Ilya (Ilyusha) Snegiryov, a character in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
  • Illyasviel von Einzbern, a character in Fate series by Type-Moon

Places

See also

References

  1. Tabarsi, Ehtejaj, Vol. 1,p.307-308.
  2. Allameh Amini, Alghadir, Vol. 7,p.78.


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