saint vs fakir

saint and fakir both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
saint	Yes	No	Yes	No
fakir	Yes	No	No	No

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

Other hyponyms of saint include Buddha, fakeer, faqir, faquir.

saint (noun)	fakir (noun)
person of exceptional holiness	a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man
model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal
a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization

saint (verb)	fakir (verb)
declare (a dead person) to be a saint
hold sacred