Ilya
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| Ilya | |
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| 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, Ilya, Iliya, Ilja, Ilyusha, Ilyushenka, Ilyich, Ilyinichna, Ali or Ilia |
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Ilya, Illya, Iliya, Ilja, or Ilia is the Slavic form of the male Hebrew name Eliyahu (Elijah), meaning "My god is He". 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.
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[edit] Real people
- Ilya Averbukh, Russian ice dancer
- Ilja Bereznickas, Lithuanian animator, illustrator scriptwriter and caricaturist
- Ilya Bryzgalov, Russian ice hockey player
- Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer and Soviet cultural ambassador
- Ilya Ilf, Russian author of Twelve Chairs and the Golden Calf
- Ilya Kabakov, Russian-American conceptual artist of Jewish origin
- Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey player for the New Jersey Devils
- Ilia Kulik, Russian figure skater
- Elia Abu Madi, Lebanese-American poet
- Ilya Mechnikov, Russian Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist
- Ilya Pozin, entrepreneur and writer
- Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
- Ilya Yefimovich Repin (1844–1930), Russian painter
- Ilya Salkind, movie producer
- Ilja Szrajbman, Polish swimmer
- Ilya Ulyanov, father of Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin
- Ilya Zhitomirskiy American/Russian founder of Diaspora
- Ilja Ylikangas, Finnish film director, screenwriter
[edit] Mythical/Biblical figures
- Ilya Muromets, Russian folk hero
- Elijah, a Hebrew prophet of the ninth century BC
- Elias, another name for the prophet Elias (St Ilya in Russian)
- Ali (Arabic, Persian ایلیا), cousin, son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the first Imam of shias. (There is a quote from Imam Ali "I'm called Elia among jews, Ilya among christians, Ali for my father, and Heydar for my mother"),[1][2]
[edit] 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
[edit] Music
- Ilya (Bristol band), from Bristol
- Ilya (San Diego band)
- "Ilya", a song by Martina Topley-Bird from Quixotic
- Ilya Kaler, violinist
- Ilya Grubert, violinist
- Ilya Lagutenko, lead singer of the Russian rock band Mumiy Troll
- Ilya Petrov, Ceremonial Perfection band, bass guitarist
[edit] References
[edit] Related
- Branch, in East African languages
- "There is" (il y a), in French
- "Irya" (Powerful, Energy, Glorious, Sun), in Sanskrit
[edit] See also
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