mendicant vs sanyasi

mendicant and sanyasi both are nouns.

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

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

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

mendicant (noun)	sanyasi (noun)
a pauper who lives by begging	a Hindu religious mendicant
a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms

mendicant (adjective)	sanyasi (adjective)
practicing beggary