It was also often referred to as niw.t, which simply means "city", and was one of only three cities in Egypt for which this noun was used (the other two were Memphis and Heliopolis); it was also called niw.t rst, "southern city", as the southernmost of them.
Исто така често се однесува на niw.t, што едноставно значи "град", и е еден од само трите градови во Египет за кои беше употребена оваа именка (другите два се Мемфис и Хелиополис); и исто така е наречен niw.t rst, "јужен град", како кајјужен од нив.