Mimation

{{Short description|Feature in some Semitic languages}}

Mimation ({{langx|ar|تَمْيِيم}}, {{transl|ar|ALA|tamyīm}}) is the phenomenon of a suffixed {{transl|sem|-m}}  (the letter mem in many Semitic abjads) which occurs in some Semitic languages.

This occurs in Akkadian in singular nouns.[http://www.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/words.html#mimmation Akkadian grammar: morphology] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090705085517/http://www.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/words.html|date=2009-07-05}}, [http://www.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/noun.html#case] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216102305/http://www.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/noun.html#case|date=2008-12-16}} Akkadian grammar: Noun declension It was also present in the Proto-Semitic language.

It is retained in the plural and dual forms in Hebrew. It corresponds to the letter nun (-n) in Classical Arabic and is retained in the singular (nunation), dual, and plural.