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Southern_Cross

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.

Synonyms

Crux

Translations

constellation

Arabic: صليب الجنوب m ‎(salīb al-janūn)
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)

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
Portuguese: Cruzeiro do Sul (pt) m
Russian: Ю́жный Крест 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