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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.
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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
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- 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
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