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Илија
Илија (Ilija) is a masculine given name from Old Church Slavonic, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Macedonian and Serbo-Croatian.
Macedonian and Serbian and Serbo-CroatianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Elijah.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Илија comes from Old Church Slavonic, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Church Slavonic Илїа, from Ancient Greek Ἠλίᾱς, from Biblical Hebrew אֱלִיָּה (ʾĕliyyā).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Илија’s family of names
In Macedonian usage, Илија has a conventional equivalent in the English form Elijah. In Macedonian usage, Илија has a conventional equivalent in the German form Elias. In Macedonian usage, Илија can be written in the Roman alphabet as ILIJA.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Илија has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Slavic roots to each of them.
6 related names in 6 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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