Southern Cross

English

Southern Cross (Crux)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsʌðə(ɹ)n ˈkɹɒs/

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Proper noun

the Southern Cross

1. (astronomy) A distinctive winter constellation of the southern sky, shaped like a cross, which appears in the flags of several countries in Oceania.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 167:

     The stars had not quite faded out of the sky, and the Southern Cross was still shining faintly in the heavens; the jungle all round was very still, just as if Nature was waiting to introduce the busy hum of life till the last solemn scene was over.

   Synonym: Crux

2. The constellation as a symbol of Australia, New Zealand and various other places in the Southern Hemisphere.

Southern Cross

1. A place in Australia:
   1. A rural locality in Charters Towers Region, northern Queensland.
   2. A locality in the Shire of Moyne, south-west Victoria.
   3. A town in the Shire of Yilgarn, Western Australia.

Translations

constellation

• Afrikaans: Suiderkruis
• Arabic: صَلِيب اَلْجَنُوب m (ṣalīb al-janūb)
• Bulgarian: южен кръст m (južen krǎst)
• Catalan: Creu del Sud (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 南十字座 (zh) (Nán Shízìzuò), 南十字星 (zh) (Nán Shízìxīng)

• Danish: Sydkorset
• Dutch: Zuiderkruis (nl) n
• 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)
• Hindi: त्रिशंकु (hi) (triśaṅku)
• Hungarian: Dél Keresztje (hu)
• Irish: an Chros f, Cros an Deiscirt f
• Italian: Croce del Sud f
• Japanese: みなみじゅうじ座 (ja), 南十字星 (ja) (みなみじゅうじせい, Minami-jūjisei)
• Kazakh: Оңтүстік Крест (Oñtüstık Krest)
• Korean: 남십자성(南十字星) (ko) (Namsipjaseong), 남십자(南十字)자리 (Namsipjajari)
• Malay: bintang pari, bintang tohok, palang selatan
• Maori: Te Punga, Te Taki-o-Autahi, Māhutonga
• Mokilese: lohpwu
• 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, Kamaliing
• Vietnamese: Nam Thập Tự, Nam Tào, Chữ Thập Phương Nam, Nam Thập

See also

• Northern Cross