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| meaning = "My god is He" (Russian meaning) or "great or glorious" (Kurdish meaning)
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| origin = [[Russian-language]] or alternatively [[Kurdish language|Kurdish]]
| related names = [[Elijah]], '''Ilya''', '''Iliya''', '''Ilja''', '''Ilyusha''', '''Ilyushenka''', '''Ilyich''', '''Ilyinichna''' or '''Ilia'''
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'''Ilya''', '''Iliya''', '''Ilja''', or '''Ilia''' is the [[Russian-language]] form of the male name [[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 Elijah (St Ilya in Russian)
===Real people===
*[[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]], Russian painter
*[[Ilya Ehrenburg]], Russian writer and Soviet cultural ambassador
*[[Ilya Kovalchuk]], ice hockey player
*[[Ilya Ulyanov]], father of Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin
*[[Ilya Tchaikovsky]], father of composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
*[[Ilya Salkind]], movie producer
*[[Ilya Kogan]], Famous debt advisor
===Fictional characters===
*[[Illyasviel von Einzbern]], a character in ''Fate/stay night''
*[[Illya Kuryakin]], a character in ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.''
== Music ==
*[[Ilya (Bristol band)]], from Bristol
== Related ==
* [[Branch]], in East African languages
* "There is" (''il y a''), in French
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