how to say “dried fruit” in Hebrew

פֵּרוֹת מְיֻבָּשִׁים
 
Today in Israel sales of dried fruits will be up by several hundred percent as the country marks the occasion of ט”וּ בִּשְׁבָט  Tu Bishvat, the 15th of the Hebrew month of Shevat – when Jews celebrate the budding of spring.
 
The word for fruit is פְּרִי (note the similarity to the English word), while fruits are פֵּרוֹת – spelled פירות when not vocalized, so as not to confuse the word with פָּרוֹת cows.
 
Dried fruits are פֵּרוֹת מְיֻבָּשִׁים , where the root י.ב.שׁ (y.b.sh) gets plugged into the passive-intensive verb form to render מְיֻבָּשׁ dried.
 
אֲנִי אוֹהֵב מַנְגוֹאִים וּתְאֵנִים מְיֻבָּשִׁים, וְכַמּוּבָן תְּמָרִים.
I like dried mangoes and figs, and of course dates.
 
אֵלּוּ פֵּרוֹת מְיֻבָּשִׁים אַתֶּם אוֹהֲבִים?
Which dried fruits do you (all) like?

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