Southern Cross

English

Southern Cross (Crux)

Proper noun

Southern Cross

(astronomy) A distinctive winter constellation of the southern sky, shaped like a cross, which appears in the flags of several countries in Oceania.
The constellation as a symbol of Australia, New Zealand and various other places in the Southern Hemisphere.

Synonyms

Crux

Translations

constellation

Arabic: صليب الجنوب‎ m (salīb al-janūn)
Catalan: Creu del Sud (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 南十字座 (zh) (Nán Shízìzuò), 南十字星 (zh) (Nán Shízìxīng)
Danish: Sydkorset
Finnish: Etelän risti (fi)
French: Croix du Sud (fr) f
Galician: Cruz do Sur (gl)
German: Kreuz des Südens (de) n
Greek: Σταυρός του Νότου (el) m (Stavrós tou Nótou)
Irish: an Chros f, Cros an Deiscirt f

Italian: Croce del Sud f
Japanese: 南十字星 (みなみじゅうじせい, Minami Jūjisei)
Korean: 남십자성 (ko) (Nam-Sipjaseong) (南十字星 (ko))
Malay: bintang pari, bintang tohok, palang selatan
Maori: Te Punga, Te Taki-o-Autahi
Polish: Krzyż Południa (pl) m
Portuguese: Cruzeiro do Sul (pt) m
Russian: Ю́жный Крест (ru) m (Júžnyj Krest)
Spanish: Crux f, Cruz del Sur (es) f
Tagalog: Timugang Paripa
Vietnamese: Nam Thập Tự, Nam Tào, Chữ Thập Phương Nam, Nam Thập

See also

Northern Cross

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