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.

   Synonym: Crux

   • 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.

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

Proper noun

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) (Nánshízì Zuò), 南十字星 (zh) (Nánshízì Xīng)

• 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: 南十字星 (ja) (Minami-jūjisei), みなみじゅうじ座 (ja) (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
• Māori: Te Punga, Te Taki-o-Autahi, Māhutonga
• Mokilese: lohpwu
• Old Tupi: Krusá
• 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