saint vs faquir

saint and faquir both are nouns.

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

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

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

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