sanyasi vs mendicant

sanyasi and mendicant both are nouns.

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

As nouns, mendicant is a hypernym of sanyasi; that is, mendicant is a word with a broader meaning than sanyasi:

Other hypernyms of sanyasi include Hindoo, Hindu, beggar.

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

sanyasi (adjective)	mendicant (adjective)
	practicing beggary