beggar vs panhandler

beggar and panhandler both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
beggar	Yes	No	Yes	No
panhandler	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, panhandler is a hyponym of beggar; that is, panhandler is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than beggar:

Other hyponyms of beggar include beggarman, beggarwoman, cadger, mooch, moocher, scrounger, sannyasi, sannyasin, sanyasi.

beggar (noun)	panhandler (noun)
a pauper who lives by begging	a beggar who approaches strangers asking for money

beggar (verb)	panhandler (verb)
reduce to beggary
be beyond the resources of