սպաս

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian սպաս (spas).

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [spɑs]
• (Western Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [əspɑ́s]

սպաս • (spas)

1. (archaic) service

   ի սպաս դնել ― i spas dnel ― to employ, exploit

2. (archaic) Alternative form of սպասք (spaskʻ)

From Old Armenian սպաս (spas).

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [səpɑ́s]
• (Western Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [səbɑ́s]
• Hyphenation: սը‧պաս

սպաս • (spas)

1. a soup from buttermilk and matzoon

A Middle Iranian borrowing; compare Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (spʾs /⁠spās⁠/, “thanks, gratitude; service”), Parthian 𐫀𐫘𐫛𐫀𐫘 (ʾspʾs /⁠aspās⁠/, “service”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- (“to look”).

Thus, the original meaning of the Iranian word is “to look”, which in Old Armenian survived only in the compound յստակասպաս (ystakaspas, “very bright, without obscurity”). The sense “to look” developed into “to look after” → “service”, whence սպասեմ (spasem, “to serve; to wait, expect”). For the sense development compare English wait vs waiter. From the sense “service” the meaning of “dinner utensils” arose (modern Armenian սպասք (spaskʻ)). From this, finally, developed the sense of a “soup” (in modern Armenian սպաս (spas) is a type of a buttermilk soup).

սպաս • (spas)

1. service, office, function, employment

   ի սպաս հայրենեաց ― i spas hayreneacʻ ― in the public service

   սպաս ունել, տանել, հարկանել, ի սպասու կալ ― spas unel, tanel, harkanel, i spasu kal ― to serve, to take service, to minister

   սպաս ունել կրակի ― spas unel kraki ― to worship fire

   սպաս տանել կռոց ― spas tanel kṙocʻ ― to worship idols

   լինել ի սպասու պաշտաման ուրուք ― linel i spasu paštaman urukʻ ― to serve, to be in service

   հարկանել, տալ ումեք զյետին սպաս ― harkanel, tal umekʻ zyetin spas ― to pay the last honours

   սպաս տանել ախտից ― spas tanel axticʻ ― to obey the passions

   աստուածական մատուցանել անձին սպաս ― astuacakan matucʻanel anjin spas ― to be one's own idol

   սպաս առնել ― spas aṙnel ― to attend well, to care, to keep, to guard, to watch, to spy, to lie in wait for

   զբաղեալ էր ի բազում սպասու ― zbałeal ēr i bazum spasu ― he was oppressed by a multitude of things, he was very busy

2. want, requisite

   սպաս արկանել, դնել ― spas arkanel, dnel ― to prepare the requisites for the Mass

3. furniture, ornaments, trimmings, apparel, moveables, luggage, clothes, goods, service of plate, vessels, utensils

   սպասք եկեղեցւոյ ― spaskʻ ekełecʻwoy ― church ornaments, decorations, plate, chalice, etc

4. dinner-service; meats, victuals, repast, dinner, treat, feast

   սպաս առնել ― spas aṙnel ― to eat, to dine

   սպաս ուտել/կերակրիլ ― spas utel/kerakril ― to regale, to entertain, to give an entertainment

5. soup
6. pomp, train, equipage
7. care, earnestness, solicitude

• Armenian: սպաս (spas), սպասք (spaskʻ)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “սպաս”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “սպաս”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “սպաս”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press