santakrusan
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- santacruzan
Etymology
From Santa Cruz + -an.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: san‧tak‧ru‧san
- IPA(key): /santakˈɾusan/, [sɐn.tɐkˈɾu.sɐn]
Noun
santakrusan
- (Catholicism) Santacruzan (religious procession on the last day of Flores de Mayo commemorating Helena of Constantinople's search for the Holy Cross and featuring a pageant of girls in special costumes)
- Synonym: santakrus-de-mayo
See also
- Reyna Elena
- sagala
- Flores de Mayo
- Tres Marias
Further reading
- “santakrusan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
Santacruzan on the Tagalog Wikipedia.Wikipedia tl