Historical personal name
Elia
Eliya/Elijah, attested in Syriac; literal etymology is not established by this check.
ܐܠܝܐ
- Language layer
- Personal name attested in Syriac
- Written spelling
- Checked in the cited source
- Personal-name evidence
- Eliya of Nisibis / Eliya bar Shinaya, a metropolitan and author of the tenth and eleventh centuries.
- Pronunciation & audio
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- Popularity / modern gender
- Not established by these sources.
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Meaning, use and context
Syriaca records ܐܠܝܐ for Eliya of Nisibis, also known as Eliya bar Shinaya. Herman Teule’s encyclopedia account identifies him as a metropolitan and author whose work included a bilingual Arabic–Syriac chronicle. This supplies a historical naming context.
Elia, Eliya, Elias and Elijah occur as related catalogue or scholarly forms. Their presence does not establish a single modern dialect pronunciation. Literal etymology, current frequency and the catalogue’s numerical claim about patriarchs remain unverified.
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Evidence for this entry
- Syriaca — Eliya, person 472 ↗
Written form and named historical bearer.
- Herman Teule — Eliya of Nisibis, GEDSH ↗
Scholarly biography and literary context.
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