Culture of Armenia Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The Armenian soup, Khash, also has its own, unique place in the Armenian cuisine. The name "khash" originates from the Armenian verb "khashél" (Armenian: խաշել), which means "to boil." The dish, initially called "khashoy", is mentioned by a number of medieval Armenian authors, e.g. Grigor Magistros (11th century), Mkhitar Heratsi (12th century), Yesayi Nchetsi (13th century), etc. The pomegranate, with its symbolic association with fertility represents that nation. The apricot is the national fruit. Since Roman times, the apricot was known as "Prunus Armeniaca," literally translated as " Armenian Plum". According to encyclopedia.com,"A popular Armenian drink
Armenian alphabet operating systems, it has been rendered obsolete. Arasan-compatible fonts are based on the encoding of the original Arasan font by Hrant Papazian (he started encoding in use since 1986), which simply replaces the Latin characters (among others) of the ASCII encoding with Armenian ones. For example, the ASCII code for the Latin character (65) represents the Armenian character . While Arasan-compatible fonts were popular among many users on Windows 9x, the encoding has been deprecated by the Unicode standard. The standard Eastern and Western Armenian keyboards are based on the layout of the font Arasan. These keyboard layouts are mostly