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*[[Illya Kuryakin]], a main character in the TV show [[the man from uncle|"The Man from U.N.C.L.E."]] |
*[[Illya Kuryakin]], a main character in the TV show [[the man from uncle|"The Man from U.N.C.L.E."]] |
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* Ilya Tretiak, a character in the 1997 film ''[[The Saint (film)|The Saint]]'' |
* Ilya Tretiak, a character in the 1997 film ''[[The Saint (film)|The Saint]]'' |
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* [[List_of_Fate/stay_night_characters#Main_characters|Illyasviel von Einzbern]], a main character in the [[Visual Novel]] [[Fate/stay_night]] |
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Revision as of 22:48, 4 December 2009
| 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 |
Илья, Ilya,Illya, Iliya, Ilja, Ilia, or ایلیا (in Arabic) is the Russian-language 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.
Famous namesakes
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)
- ایلیا, (Arabic, Persian) Ali, 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]
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
- Illyasviel von Einzbern, a main character in the Visual Novel Fate/stay_night
Real people
- Ilja Bereznickas, a Lithuanian animator, illustrator scriptwriter and caricaturist
- Ilya Ilf, Russian author of Twelve Chairs and the Golden Calf
- Ilya Bryzgalov, ice hockey player
- Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
- Ilya Mechnikov, Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist
- Ilya Yefimovich Repin (1844-1930), Russian painter
- Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer and Soviet cultural ambassador
- Ilya Kovalchuk, ice hockey player
- Ilya Ulyanov, father of Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin
- Ilya Pyotrovich Tchaikovsky, father of composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Ilya Salkind, movie producer
- Ilya Kabakov, Russian-American conceptual artist of Jewish origin
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 Gringolts, violinist
References
Related
- Branch, in East African languages
- "There is" (il y a), in French
- "Irya" (Powerful, Energy, Glorious, Sun), in Sanskrit
See also
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