Ilya

Ilya, Illia, Illya, Iliya, Il'ja, Ilija, or Ilia (Russian: Илья́, romanized: Il'ja [ɪlʲˈja] or Russian: Илия́, romanized: Ilija [ɪlʲɪˈja]; Ukrainian: Ілля́, romanized: Illja [iˈlʲːɑ]) is the East Slavic form of the male Hebrew name Eliyahu (Elijah), meaning "My God is Yahu/Jah"[2]". 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".

This article is about the given name. For other uses, see Ilya (disambiguation).
Ilya
Gendermale
Origin
Word/nameEast Slavic or alternatively Kurdish
Meaning"My god is Yahu/Jah"[1]" (Hebrew meaning) or "great or glorious" (Kurdish meaning)
Other names
Related namesElijah, Ilija, Ilya, Iliya, Ilja, Ilyusha, Ilyushenka, Ilyich, Ilyinichna, Ali or Ilia

Famous namesakes

Real people

Mythical/Biblical figures
  • Ilya Muromets, Orthodox monastic saint, 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"),[3][4]

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, a character in the book and film adaption Heaven Knows What
  • 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
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See also

References
  1. J. D. Douglas; F. F. Bruce; J. I. Packer; N. Hillyer; D. Guthrie; A.R. Millard; D. J. Wiseman, eds. (1982). New Bible Dictionary (2nd ed.). Wheaton, IL, US: Tyndale House. p. 319. ISBN 9780842346672.
  2. J. D. Douglas; F. F. Bruce; J. I. Packer; N. Hillyer; D. Guthrie; A.R. Millard; D. J. Wiseman, eds. (1982). New Bible Dictionary (2nd ed.). Wheaton, IL, US: Tyndale House. p. 319. ISBN 9780842346672.
  3. Tabarsi, Ehtejaj, Vol. 1,p.307-308.
  4. Allameh Amini, Alghadir, Vol. 7,p.78.
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