إدريس

Etymology
, formally a borrowing, candidates suggested include:


 * one of the apostles of Jesus
 * and also the immortalized cook of Alexander the Great (the latter being called )
 * , figures in the
 * the form  of, which would make it a doublet of
 * the form  of, which would make it a doublet of

Islamic theologists took the name as from from the root, in spite of the pattern  having been unproductive even by the time of Islam, leading to the equation with the biblical Enoch, whose name derives from. Enoch is generally depicted as a man of science, and is sometimes credited for inventing the art of writing and astronomy.

Proper noun

 * 1)  Idris, Idrees, a figure in the Islamic narrative.