Beaufort scale

Etymology
Created by Irish hydrographer and British navy officer Francis Beaufort in 1806.

Proper noun

 * 1)  An empirical measure for the intensity of the wind based mainly on the state of the sea or wave conditions.

Translations

 * Arabic: مقياس بوفورت
 * Armenian: Բոֆորտի սանդղակ
 * Basque: Beaufort eskala
 * Belarusian: шкала Бафорта
 * Bulgarian: скала Бофортова
 * Catalan: escala de Beaufort
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 蒲福氏風級
 * Czech: Beaufortova stupnice
 * Danish: Beaufort-skalaen
 * Dutch: schaal van Beaufort
 * Esperanto: Boforta skalo
 * Estonian: Beauforti skaala
 * Finnish: Beaufortin asteikko, boforiasteikko
 * French:
 * Georgian: ბოფორტის სკალა, ბოფორტის შკალა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: סולם בופורט
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: Beaufort-kvarðinn
 * Italian: scala di Beaufort
 * Japanese: ビューフォート風力階級
 * Kazakh: Бофорт шкаласы
 * Korean: 보퍼트 풍력 계급
 * Latvian: Boforta skala
 * Lithuanian: Boforto skalė
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: beaufortskala
 * Nynorsk: beaufortskala
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: escala de Beaufort
 * Romanian: scala Beaufort, scala de vânt Beaufort
 * Russian: шкала́ Бофо́рта
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Бофорова скала
 * Roman: Beaufortova skala
 * Slovak: Beaufortova stupnica
 * Slovene: Beaufortova lestvica
 * Spanish: escala de Beaufort
 * Swedish: Beauforts skala, Beaufortskalan
 * Turkish: Beaufort rüzgar skalası
 * Ukrainian: шкала́ Бофо́рта
 * Vietnamese: thang sức gió Beaufort