fakir vs mendicant

fakir

noun
  • A faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms. 

  • Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature. 

  • An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic. 

mendicant

noun
  • A religious friar, forbidden to own personal property, who begs for a living. 

  • A pauper who lives by begging. 

adj
  • Depending on alms for a living. 

  • Of or pertaining to a beggar. 

  • Of or pertaining to a member of a religious order forbidden to own property, and who must beg for a living. 

How often have the words fakir and mendicant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )