Ilya
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Russian-language or alternatively Kurdish |
| Meaning | "My god is Yahu/Jah"[1]" (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, 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".
Famous namesakes
Real people
- Ilya Averbukh, Russian ice dancer
- Ilja Bereznickas, Lithuanian animator, illustrator scriptwriter and caricaturist
- Ilya Bryzgalov, Russian ice hockey goalie
- Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer and Soviet cultural ambassador
- Ilya Grubert, violinist
- Ilya Ilf, Russian author of Twelve Chairs and the Golden Calf
- Ilya Ilin, Kazakh olympic weightlifter
- Ilya Kabakov, Russian-American conceptual artist of Jewish origin
- Ilya Kaler, violinist
- Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey winger for the Los Angeles Kings
- Ilia Kulik, Russian figure skater
- Ilya Lagutenko, lead singer of the Russian rock band Mumiy Troll
- Elia Abu Madi, Lebanese-American poet
- Ilya Espino de Marotta, Marine engineer and leader of the Panama Canal Expansion Project
- Ilya Mechnikov, Russian Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist
- Ilya Petrov (born 1995), Russian footballer
- Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
- Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, Russian-Jewish-Israeli mathematician
- Ilya Yefimovich Repin (1844–1930), Russian painter
- Ilya Salkind, movie producer
- Ilya Salmanzadeh, Persian-Swedish music producer
- Ilya Strebulaev, Russian-American financial economist
- Ilja Szrajbman, Polish swimmer
- Ilya Ulyanov, father of Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin
- Ilya Zhitomirskiy, American/Russian founder of Diaspora
- Ilja Hurník, Czech composer, pianist and essayist
- Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer Dutch poet, novelist, polemicist and classic scholar
- Ilya Serov (born 1986), Russian-American trumpeter and singer
- Ilja Richter German actor
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
- Ilya, Belarus, village near Minsk
See also
- Elia (disambiguation)
- Ilja
- Ilija (given name)
- Ilias (disambiguation)
- Ilyin
- Ilyinka
- Ilyinsky (disambiguation)
- Ilyino
- Illyasviel
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Tabarsi, Ehtejaj, Vol. 1,p.307-308.
- ^ Allameh Amini, Alghadir, Vol. 7,p.78.
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