Ilija

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic Илїа (Ilia), from Ancient Greek Ἠλίᾱς (Ēlíās), from Biblical Hebrew אֱלִיָּה (ʾĕliyyā).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ǐlija/

Proper noun

Ìlija m anim (Cyrillic spelling Ѝлија)

  1. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Elias or Elijah