Avvaiyar
Avvaiyar (also Auvaiyar or Avviyar) is an honorific historically used in Tamil culture and literature, and is defined as "respectable elderly woman".[1] There are at least three poets titled Avvaiyar:
- Avvaiyar (Sangam poet), a 1st-century BCE poet
- Avvaiyar (8th-century poet), an 8th-century poet
- Avvaiyar (12th-century poet), a 12th-century poet
The name may also refer to:
- Avvaiyar (film), a 1953 Indian film by Kothamangalam Subbu
- Avviyar (crater), a crater on Venus named for the Sangam period poet
See also
[edit]- Avva, a name
- Avva (film), a 2008 Indian film
References
[edit]- ^ Mukherjee, Sujit (1999). A dictionary of Indian literature. India: Orient Blackswan. p. 32. ISBN 978-81-250-1453-9.
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