Avvaiyar (also Auvaiyar or Avviyar) is an honorific historically used in Tamil culture and literature, and is defined as "respectable elderly woman". 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 Avva, a name Avva (film), a 2008 Indian film
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