Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🌌 From their world 🧑‍🚀 An alien person 👽 Alien species
Minbari

Minbari

34 9.9
Relating to the fictional group of aliens from the TV show Babylon 5, their culture, language, or technology
  • adjective
: minbari
  • In the Babylon 5 series, the Minbari technology is shown to be far more advanced than that of Earth.
  • a Minbari cruiser
  • Minbari war
  • a Minbari telepath

Examples

  • On the theory that the Centauri don't want trouble with your government... we could transfer some of that food to Minbari transports.

    Whiskers (1997)

  • Instead, at the end of Season 5, the Shadow War is still raging, but the alliance against the Shadows is betrayed by the Minbari warrior caste, who destroy Babylon 5 near the end of the series.

    Blog text (31)

  • They couldn't get the voice effects right that would change the pitch to "male," so they decided to just make her female from the start (redubbing one line to change a "he" to "she," and subsequently extensively changing the Minbari makeup to appear more feminine for the series).

    Blog text (31)

  • The Minbari language is rich with history and is integral to their culture.

  • The Minbari Federation has a complex relationship with Earth, shaped by their past conflicts.

Surface Forms

Minbari positive

Etymology

Minbari is the name made for the alien people in the TV show Babylon 5, so as an adjective it means 'connected to that fictional culture'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of Minbari robes or language as things 'from the Minbari world'.