merchant vs bourgeois

merchant and bourgeois both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
merchant	Yes	No	No	No
bourgeois	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, bourgeois is a hypernym of merchant; that is, bourgeois is a word with a broader meaning than merchant:

Other hypernyms of merchant include businessperson.

merchant (noun)	bourgeois (noun)
a businessperson engaged in retail trade	a member of the middle class
	a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise

merchant (adjective)	bourgeois (adjective)
	(according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class
	belonging to the middle class
	conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class