արուեստ

Etymology
Of origin. Compare Inscriptional 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. The ending was perhaps contaminated with the suffix.

Noun

 * 1) art; trade, handicraft
 * 2) skilfully crafted handiwork
 * 3) sign, miracle
 * 4) monster
 * 5) artifice, expedient, means, invention, ingenuity
 * 1) sign, miracle
 * 2) monster
 * 3) artifice, expedient, means, invention, ingenuity

Usage notes
There was no distinction between and  in Old Armenian; the latter was merely the post-classical spelling of the former. In modern literary Armenian is used for “handicraft, trade” while  is reserved only for “mental creation, art”.