إدريس

See also: ادریس‎

Arabic

Etymology

Uncertain, formally a borrowing, candidates suggested include:

Koine Greek Ἀνδρέας (Andréas),
- one of the apostles of Jesus[1]
- and also the immortalized cook of Alexander the Great (the latter being called ذُو الْقَرْنَيْن‎ (ḏū l-qarnayn))[2]
Ancient Greek Ποιμάνδρης (Poimándrēs), one of the figures in the Corpus Hermeticum[3]
the Koine Greek form Ἔσδρας (Ésdras) of Biblical Hebrew עֶזְרָא‎ (ʿezrā, “Ezra”), which would make it a doublet of عَازِر‎ (ʕāzir, “Ezra”), عُزَيْر‎ (ʕuzayr, “Ezra”), and آزَر‎ (ʔāzar, “Terah, Abraham’s father”)[4][5]
Biblical Hebrew דּוֹרֵשׁ‎‎ (dōrēš, “teacher (scilicet of the Torah)”)[6]

Islamic theologists, in lack of historical erudition, took the name as from أَدْرَسَ‎ (ʔadrasa, “to teach”) from the root د ر س‎ (d-r-s), in spite of the pattern إِفْعِيل (ʔifʕīl) having been unproductive even by the time of Islam, leading to the false equation with the biblical Enoch, a man of science inventing the art of writing and astronomy.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʔid.riːs/
- (Moroccan) IPA^(key): /ʔid.riːs/, /driːs/

Proper noun

إِدْرِيس • (ʔidrīs) m

(Islam) Idris, Idrees, a figure in the Islamic narrative.
- 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 19:56:
  ‏وَٱذۡكُرۡ فِی ٱلۡكِتَـٰبِ إِدۡرِیسَۚ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ صِدِّیقࣰا نَّبِیࣰّا‎
  wa-ḏkur fī l-kitābi ʾidrīsa ʾinnahū kāna ṣiddīqan nabiyyan
  And mention in the Book, Idrees. Indeed, he was a man of truth and a prophet.
a male given name

Declension

Declension of noun إِدْرِيس (ʔidrīs)

Singular	basic singular diptote
Singular	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	—	إِدْرِيس ʔidrīs	—
Nominative	—	إِدْرِيسُ ʔidrīsu	—
Accusative	—	إِدْرِيسَ ʔidrīsa	—
Genitive	—	إِدْرِيسَ ʔidrīsa	—

References

Nöldeke, Theodor (1903), “Idris”, in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete‎ (in German), volume 17, pages 83–84
Hartmann, Richard (1910), “Zur Erklärung von Sūre 18, 59 ff.”, in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete‎ (in German), volume 24, pages 314–315
Albright, William Foxwell (1922), “[Review of] Boylan, Patrick, Thoth, the Hermes of Egypt. Pp. VIII+215 (8 vo.), Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, etc., 1922”, in Journal of the Palestine Oriental Society, volume 2, pages 197–198
Casanova, Paul (1924), “Idrīs etʿOuzaïr”, in Journal asiatique‎ (in French), volume 205, pages 356–360
Torrey, Charles Cutler (1933) The Jewish foundation of Islam‎, New York: Jewish Institute of Religion Press – Bloch Publishing Co., Agents, page 72
Erder, Yoram (1990), “The Origin of the Name Idrīs in the Qurʾān: A Study of the Influence of Qumran Literature on Early Islam”, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies‎, volume 49, issue 4, page 342 seqq.

[1] Nöldeke, Theodor (1903), “Idris”, in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete‎ (in German), volume 17, pages 83–84

[2] Hartmann, Richard (1910), “Zur Erklärung von Sūre 18, 59 ff.”, in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete‎ (in German), volume 24, pages 314–315

[3] Albright, William Foxwell (1922), “[Review of] Boylan, Patrick, Thoth, the Hermes of Egypt. Pp. VIII+215 (8 vo.), Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, etc., 1922”, in Journal of the Palestine Oriental Society, volume 2, pages 197–198

[4] Casanova, Paul (1924), “Idrīs etʿOuzaïr”, in Journal asiatique‎ (in French), volume 205, pages 356–360

[5] Torrey, Charles Cutler (1933) The Jewish foundation of Islam‎, New York: Jewish Institute of Religion Press – Bloch Publishing Co., Agents, page 72

[6] Erder, Yoram (1990), “The Origin of the Name Idrīs in the Qurʾān: A Study of the Influence of Qumran Literature on Early Islam”, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies‎, volume 49, issue 4, page 342 seqq.