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English [ edit ] Southern Cross (Crux) Pronunciation [ edit ] Proper noun [ edit ] the Southern Cross
( astronomy ) winter constellation of the southern sky, shaped like a cross , which appears in the flags of several countries in Oceania .
1887 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.
The constellation as a symbol of Australia , New Zealand and various other places in the Southern Hemisphere . Synonyms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] 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 )
Hungarian: Dél Keresztje (hu)
Irish: an Chros f Cros an Deiscirt f
Italian: Croce del Sud f
Japanese: 南十字星 (ja) ( みなみじゅうじせい, Minami-jūjisei )
Korean: 남십자성(南十字星) (ko) ( Namsipjaseong )
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
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