كِسَاءٌ

[A garment]. See عَبَاءٌ, and حِلْسٌ and مُسَيَّحٌ.

ذُو كِسَاءٍ, as opposed to ذُوبُرْدٍ, (assumed tropical:) A poor man. (S, article عج.) [The كساء was evidently a simple oblong piece of cloth; for الكِسَايءِى is said to have been thus named because he wore a كساء while in the state of إِحْرَام; as is mentioned in the TA, article كسو; but it seems to have been sometimes sewed in the manner of the عَبَاء, which see; and see also مُسَيَّحٌ, and بُرْدٌ.] It is [properly] not one of the garments which are cut and sewed [but is a single piece]: (Mgh, article قطع:) [a wrapper, or wrapping garment, of a single piece].

رَكِبَ كِسَاءَهُ He fell upon the back of his neck. (IAar, in TA, article ردع.)