shibboleth vs mantra

shibboleth and mantra both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
shibboleth	Yes	No	No	No
mantra	Yes	No	No	No

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

Other hyponyms of shibboleth include catch phrase, catchphrase, battle cry, cry, rallying cry, war cry, watchword.

shibboleth (noun)	mantra (noun)
a manner of speaking that is distinctive of a particular group of people	(Sanskrit) literally a `sacred utterance' in Vedism; one of a collection of orally transmitted poetic hymns
a favorite saying of a group, organization or individual	a commonly repeated word or phrase