إدريس

From the verb أَدْرُس‎ (ʾadrus, “to teach”), from the root د ر س‎ (d-r-s), reportedly because he was the first to write with a pen.

• IPA^(key): /ʔid.riːs/

إِدْرِيس • (ʾidrīs) m

1. (Islam) Idris, Idrees, a prophet in Islam generally held to be identical to the biblical Enoch
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 19:56:

     وَٱذْكُرْ فِى ٱلْكِتَبِ إِدْرِيسَۚ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ صِدِّيقًۭا نَّبِيًّۭا

     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.

• Idris (prophet) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Enoch (ancestor of Noah) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (Islamic prophets) آدَم‎ (ʾādam), إِدْرِيس (ʾidrīs), نُوح‎ (nūḥ), هُود‎ (hūd), صَالِح‎ (ṣāliḥ), إِبْرَاهِيم‎ (ʾibrāhīm), لُوط‎ (lūṭ), إِسْمَاعِيل‎ (ʾismāʿīl), إِسْحَاق‎ (ʾisḥāq), يَعْقُوب‎ (yaʿqūb), يُوسُف‎ (yūsuf), أَيُّوب‎ (ʾayyūb), ذُو الْكِفْل‎ (ḏū l-kifl), شُعَيْب‎ (šuʿayb), مُوسَى‎ (mūsā), هَارُون‎ (hārūn), دَاوُد‎ (dāwūd), سُلَيْمَان‎ (sulaymān), يُونُس‎ (yūnus), إِلْيَاس‎ (ʾilyās), الْيَسَع‎ (al-yasaʿ), زَكَرِيَّا‎ (zakariyyā), يَحْيَى‎ (yaḥyā), عِيسَى‎ (ʿīsā), مُحَمَّد‎ (muḥammad) ^{(Category: ar:Islamic prophets)}