Sorry, i know points have already been awarded for this term, but as asker has added a note because they have not received the correct answer, I thought I would merely do this towards helping them.

'jootha' IS transliterated correctly.
The term jootha means contaminated by some other person having touched/used or tasted the food/drink or utensil.
This can be taken in a negative and degrading way when the second recipient of that food/drink/utensil considers the contaminer, i.e the first person, to be of a low caste or not like them or stranger to the recipient etc.
or in a positive way i.e the second recipient loves the contaminer, is an offspring of, is related directly to or is considered a holy or highly regarded person.
unfortunately there can only be one possible term that i can think of and when you consider it, it portrays a negative sense, i.e 'contaminate' however the next closest word or sense that I can think of would be: 'blessed' but this would not be a direct translation of the word, so to be carefully used.