Ilya, Illya, Iliya, Ilja, Ilija, or Ilia is the East Slavic form of the male Hebrew name Eliyahu , meaning "My god is He". It comes from the Byzantine Greek pronunciation of the vocative of the Greek Elias . 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, Illya, Iliya, Ilja, Ilija, or Ilia is the East Slavic form of the male Hebrew name Eliyahu , meaning "My god is He". It comes from the Byzantine Greek pronunciation of the vocative of the Greek Elias . 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"....