mendicant vs panhandler

mendicant and panhandler both are nouns.

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

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

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

mendicant (noun)	panhandler (noun)
a pauper who lives by begging	a beggar who approaches strangers asking for money
a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms

mendicant (adjective)	panhandler (adjective)
practicing beggary