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Egîdê Cimo (born 1932) was a Kurdish instrumentalist, born in the village of Erdeşîr in the Armavir district of Armenia, whose family had migrated from Van. When the Kurdish section of Armenian State Radio opened in 1955, he became its first instrumentalist, and by his own account he worked at Radio Yerevan for 37 years, playing the bilûr, fîq and mey. In 1967 he graduated from the Romanos Melikyan music college in Yerevan, and he became known as "Mîrê Bilûrê" (Prince of the Flute). His recordings are kept in the Public Radio of Armenia archive.