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noun, feminine

batea

/baˈtea/

noun, feminine/baˈtea/plural: bateas

shallow pan (wide receptacle used in gold washing); tray (for foods such as shellfish, fruit); bed (of a truck)

Borrowed from Mozarabic *baṭíḥa (“plain”), from Arabic. Original sense was for an almost flat dish-shaped receptacle.