Heciyê Cindî (Armenian: Հաջիե Ջնդի Ջաուարի; March 18, 1908 – May 1, 1990) was a Kurdish[1] linguist and researcher from Armenia.
Cindî was born into a Yazidi Kurdish family in the village of Yemençayir (Emançayîr) near Kars in modern Turkey.
During World War I and Turkish and Soviet invasions, his family fled to Armenia and settled in the village of Elegez.
During 1929–30, Cindî taught in the villages of Qundexsaz and Elegez, and was head of the cultural section of the Kurdish newspaper Riya Teze in 1930.
In 1937, during Joseph Stalin's purges, he was imprisoned on March 18, 1937, on charges of spying, nationalism, being a Yezidi and helping counter-revolutionaries.