From shaqad; the almond (tree or nut; as being the earliest in bloom) -- almond (tree).
see HEBREW shaqad
H8247. shaqed
שָׁקֵד noun [masculine] almond (-tree) (Late Hebrew id.; so called from its early waking out of winter's sleep, according to Ki Thes LagBN 45 and others; Aramaic שִׁיגְדָּא, , , whence Ethiopic compare NöM 39; compare LöwNo. 319); —
1 almond, i.e. the nut, plural שְׁקֵדִים Genesis 43:11 (J; +בָּטְנִים, etc.), Numbers 17:23 (P).
2 almond-tree Jeremiah 1:11 and (probably) Ecclesiastes 12:5.