Given name · also Arabic
İlyas
İlyas is a masculine given name from Arabic, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Turkish and Azerbaijani.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
İlyas comes from Arabic, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Azerbaijani usage, İlyas developed from אליהו. In Turkish usage, İlyas developed from Ἠλίας.
İlyas’s family of names
In Turkish usage, İlyas shares a linguistic root with the Bashkir form Ильяс. In Turkish usage, İlyas has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Elias. In Turkish usage, İlyas has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Elías.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
İlyas has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its Arabic roots to each of them.
7 related names in 7 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Elijahequivalent
- EliasPortuguese
- Eliaequivalent
- إلياسequivalent
- Ильясcognate · Bashkir
- ElíasSpanish
- Ἠλίαςroot · Ancient Greek
- الیاسolder form · Ottoman Turkish
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People named İlyas
- İlyas SalmanTurkish actor and director (born 1949)
- İlyas TüfekçiTurkish association football player (born 1960)
- İlyas YalçıntaşTurkish singer (born 1989)
- İlyas KahramanTurkish association football player (born 1976)
- İlyas İlbeyTurkish actor (born 1951)
- İlyas ÇanakçıTurkish sprinter (born 2001)
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