Eli

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• /ˈilaɪ/
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From Hebrew עֵלִי (“ascent”); cognate to the Arabic-derived Ali.

Short versions of male given names.

From the name of Elihu Yale.

33 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: عالي — male given name
• Arabic: عالى — male given name
• Breton: Eli — male given name
• Catalan: Elí — male given name
• Chinese Mandarin: 以利 (Yǐlì) — male given name
• Czech: Élí — male given name
• Esperanto: Eli — male given name
• Finnish: Eeli — male given name
• French: Éli — male given name
• German: Eli — male given name
• Ancient Greek: Ηλί (Ēlí) — male given name
• Hebrew: אֵלִי — male given name
• Hebrew: עֵלִי — male given name
• Hungarian: Éli — male given name
• Indonesian: Eli — male given name
• Interlingua: Eli — male given name
• Italian: Eli — male given name
• Japanese: エリ — male given name
• Kazakh: Ели — male given name
• Korean: 엘리 (elli) — male given name
• Latin: Hēlī — male given name
• Malagasy: Ely — male given name
• Persian: عیلی — male given name
• Portuguese: Eli — male given name
• Russian: Илий (Ilij) — male given name
• Tibetan: ཨེ་ལི། (e li) — male given name
• Ukrainian: Ілій (Ilij) — male given name
• Urdu: عیلی ('elī) — male given name
• Finnish: Eeli — the priest who brought up Samuel
• Hebrew: עֵלִי — the priest who brought up Samuel
• Portuguese: Eli — the priest who brought up Samuel
• Spanish: Elí — the priest who brought up Samuel
• Yiddish: אלי — the priest who brought up Samuel