Ilya

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Ilja is a first name .

Origin and meaning

Ilja ( Russian Илья ; Serbian Илија ; Bulgarian Илия ; Ukrainian Ілля ) is the German spelling of the Slavonic form of the Old Testament name of a prophet, Elijah or Hebrew אֵלִיָּהוּ ʾĒlijjā́hû . Ilja , like Elias, is a theophoric name with this origin , it contains the short form jhw (יהו) a divine name and means "My God [is] Yahu ". Alternative spellings of the masculine name form are Ilia, Iljia, Iljas, Illja, Ilya.

A feminine form of the name is also Iljina ( Russian Ильина ; Serbian Илијана ; Bulgarian Илиана ), in Italy Ilia , in Greece Ηλία ; French forms are Elia and Eliette.

As a Russian patronymic , the name for boys is Ilyich (Ильич), for girls Ilyinichna (Ильинична).

Other minor forms and spellings

The different transcriptions from Russian also result in different spellings of the first name Ilja . He was in the Anglo-American world in the variant Illya popular when in the 1960s, the Scottish actor David McCallum in one of the two main roles of the television series The Man from UNCLE (UNCLE) for five years the Russian secret agent Illya Kuryakin embodied .

Name variants

  • Iljas ( Azerbaijani )
  • Elijah, Elias, Elihu, Ilya ( English )
  • إيليا, إلياس ( Arabic )
  • Եղիա ( Armenian )
  • Ілья, Ілля, Ільля, Галляш, Гальляш, Ілляш, Ільляш, Ілія ( Belarusian )
  • Илья ( Russian )
  • Илия, Ило, Иле, Илко, Ильо, Илчо, Илийчо, Личо, Личе, Илиан, Илиян, Илин, уменьшительные: Илианчо, Илиянчо, Илинчо, Илко, Ильо, Илчо, Ило, Иле ( Bulgarian )
  • Eliez, Eliaz ( Breton )
  • Elis, Eleias ( Welsh )
  • Illés ( Hungarian )
  • Ηλίας ( Greek )
  • ილია ( Georgian )
  • Elias ( Danish )
  • אליהו, איליה ( Hebrew )
  • Elías ( Spanish )
  • Elia ( Italian )
  • 伊利亚 ( Chinese )
  • 일리야 ( Korean )
  • Elias ( Norwegian )
  • Eliasz ( Polish )
  • Elias, El, Eli, Li, Lias, Liasinho, Litinho, Lizinho, Lilias ( Portuguese )
  • Илија, Ilija, Иле, Ile ( Serbian )
  • Ильяс ( Tatar )
  • İlyas ( Turkish )
  • Ілля ( Ukrainian )
  • Élie, Elière, Elias, Ilya ( French )
  • Eliáš, Ilja, Ela, Eliášek, Iljuška, Ilječka, Iloušek, Ilek ( Czech )
  • Elia ( esperanto )
  • イ リ ヤ ( Japanese )

Hypocoristics

Pet names derived from the name Ilja.

  • Neutral: Ilyusha
  • Family or friendly: Ilyucha
  • Pet form: Ilyushka, Ilyunja, Ilyuschenka, Ilyushetschka, Ilyunetschka, Ilyushka, Ilyuntchik, Ilyusya, Ilyussik, Ilka, Ila, Ilenka, Iletschka

Well-known namesake

First name

Ilya

Ilia

Ilija

Ilyas

Illja

Ilya

  • Ilya Prigogine (1917–2003), Russian-Belgian chaos theorist and Nobel Prize winner
  • Ilya Welter (* 1966), German voice actress
  • Ilya Kovalchuk

In mythology

  • Ilia, the king's daughter and vestal virgin Rhea Silvia - also called Ilia - dishonored and impregnated by the god of war Mars , was the birth mother of the twins Romulus and Remus , who later became the legendary founders of the city of Rome. Thus the Ilia is the mythological forefather of Rome, while her rapist, the warlike god Mars, is considered to be the real forefather of the city of Rome.

Fictional people

Surname

In biology

  • Apatura ilia is the scientific name of the lesser schiller moth - a butterfly.

Geographical names

See also

  • Ilyushin - Russian family name derived from the first name Ilya (as an adjective form).
  • Iljitsch - the Russian father's name (patronymic) of Ilja, or its German transcription, Serbo-Croatian : Ilić (Илић).
  • Elischa - the successor of the prophet Elijah ( also Elia; Ilia; Elias; Elijah; Hebrew אליהו Elijahu )
  • Jiljí - a similar name with a different origin (from Gilles , German also Aegidius , Polish Idzi , Hungarian Egyed , Slovak Ilija )
  • ILJA - Illinois Institute of Art in Chicago
  • Iliad - an ancient Greek epic, together with the Odyssey, attributed to Homer
    • the highest mountain in the Peloponnese Hagios Ilias , see Taygetos ;
    • other highest mountains on Greek islands, see Profitis Ilias ;
    • the princes of Moldova in the period 1432–1442, see Iliaș I .;
    • the Prince of Moldova in the period 1546–1551, see Iliaș II .;
    • an open source software for e-learning, see ILIAS (software)
  • Ilium - plural: Ilia = Latin scientific name for iliac bone

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Ludwig Roth: Roman history in a detailed narrative , four volumes, volume 1: From the founding of the city of Rome to the year 587 after its construction , JA Stein, Nuremberg 1844–1847, OCLC 493845590 (online: 1 section, page 1 in: Google Books).
  2. ↑ Full text PDF, free of charge, 16 pages, 1.9 MB, Croatian, English summary