Mimation (Arabic: تَمْيِيم, tamyīm), is the phenomenon of a suffixed -m (the letter mem in many Semitic abjads) which occurs in some Semitic languages.
This occurs in Akkadian on singular nouns.[1] 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.
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