diff --git a/ci/conda_env_cpp.txt b/ci/conda_env_cpp.txt
index 731b49fa462..50b91b7a656 100644
--- a/ci/conda_env_cpp.txt
+++ b/ci/conda_env_cpp.txt
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ gflags
 glog
 gmock>=1.10.0
 google-cloud-cpp>=1.34.0
-grpc-cpp<=1.50.1
 gtest>=1.10.0
+libgrpc
 libprotobuf
 libutf8proc
 lz4-c
diff --git a/cpp/meson.build b/cpp/meson.build
index 81143ed1e28..ea7b50ec94b 100644
--- a/cpp/meson.build
+++ b/cpp/meson.build
@@ -95,12 +95,13 @@ needs_testing = (get_option('testing').enabled()
     or needs_integration
 )
 needs_json = get_option('json').enabled() or needs_testing
+needs_orc = get_option('orc').enabled()
 needs_brotli = get_option('brotli').enabled() or needs_fuzzing
 needs_bz2 = get_option('bz2').enabled()
-needs_lz4 = get_option('lz4').enabled()
-needs_snappy = get_option('snappy').enabled()
-needs_zlib = get_option('zlib').enabled()
-needs_zstd = get_option('zstd').enabled()
+needs_lz4 = get_option('lz4').enabled() or needs_orc
+needs_snappy = get_option('snappy').enabled() or needs_orc
+needs_zlib = get_option('zlib').enabled() or needs_orc
+needs_zstd = get_option('zstd').enabled() or needs_orc
 needs_utilities = get_option('utilities').enabled()
 
 subdir('src/arrow')
diff --git a/cpp/meson.options b/cpp/meson.options
index 668f440ee72..baf51c8c5bd 100644
--- a/cpp/meson.options
+++ b/cpp/meson.options
@@ -84,6 +84,12 @@ option('git_description', type: 'string')
 
 option('lz4', type: 'feature', description: 'Build with lz4 compression')
 
+option(
+    'orc',
+    type: 'feature',
+    description: 'Build the Arrow ORC adapter',
+)
+
 option(
     'package_kind',
     type: 'string',
diff --git a/cpp/src/arrow/adapters/orc/meson.build b/cpp/src/arrow/adapters/orc/meson.build
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..dacea07108b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cpp/src/arrow/adapters/orc/meson.build
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+install_headers(['adapter.h', 'options.h'], subdir: 'arrow/adapters/orc')
+
+arrow_orc_dep = declare_dependency(
+    include_directories: include_directories('.'),
+    dependencies: [arrow_dep],
+)
+
+meson.override_dependency('arrow-orc', arrow_orc_dep)
+
+pkg.generate(
+    filebase: 'arrow-orc',
+    name: 'Apache Arrow ORC',
+    description: 'ORC modules for Apache Arrow',
+    requires: ['arrow'],
+)
+
+exc = executable(
+    'arrow-orc-adapter-test',
+    sources: ['adapter_test.cc'],
+    dependencies: [arrow_test_dep, orc_dep],
+)
+test('arrow-orc-adapter-test', exc)
diff --git a/cpp/src/arrow/adapters/orc/util.cc b/cpp/src/arrow/adapters/orc/util.cc
index 6974faae59b..68d062f125f 100644
--- a/cpp/src/arrow/adapters/orc/util.cc
+++ b/cpp/src/arrow/adapters/orc/util.cc
@@ -212,7 +212,10 @@ Status AppendTimestampBatch(liborc::ColumnVectorBatch* column_vector_batch,
   const int64_t* seconds = batch->data.data() + offset;
   const int64_t* nanos = batch->nanoseconds.data() + offset;
 
-  auto transform_timestamp = [seconds, nanos](int64_t index) {
+  auto transform_timestamp = [seconds, nanos, valid_bytes](int64_t index) -> int64_t {
+    if (valid_bytes && !valid_bytes[index]) {
+      return 0;
+    }
     return seconds[index] * kOneSecondNanos + nanos[index];
   };
 
diff --git a/cpp/src/arrow/meson.build b/cpp/src/arrow/meson.build
index a04fdf88c2d..baf9ca1359c 100644
--- a/cpp/src/arrow/meson.build
+++ b/cpp/src/arrow/meson.build
@@ -472,6 +472,22 @@ if needs_json
     }
 endif
 
+if needs_orc
+    orc_dep = dependency('orc')
+    arrow_components += {
+        'arrow_orc': {
+            'sources': files(
+                'adapters/orc/adapter.cc',
+                'adapters/orc/options.cc',
+                'adapters/orc/util.cc',
+            ),
+            'dependencies': [orc_dep],
+        },
+    }
+else
+    orc_dep = disabler()
+endif
+
 arrow_srcs = []
 include_dir = include_directories('..')
 arrow_includes = [include_dir]
@@ -835,6 +851,10 @@ if needs_json
     subdir('json')
 endif
 
+if needs_orc
+    subdir('adapters/orc')
+endif
+
 if needs_ipc
     subdir('ipc')
 endif
diff --git a/cpp/src/arrow/util/meson.build b/cpp/src/arrow/util/meson.build
index 2fbbedbb931..6edcd716896 100644
--- a/cpp/src/arrow/util/meson.build
+++ b/cpp/src/arrow/util/meson.build
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ conf_data.set('ARROW_JEMALLOC', false)
 conf_data.set('ARROW_JEMALLOC_VENDORED', false)
 conf_data.set('ARROW_JSON', needs_json)
 conf_data.set('ARROW_MIMALLOC', false)
-conf_data.set('ARROW_ORC', false)
+conf_data.set('ARROW_ORC', needs_orc)
 conf_data.set('ARROW_PARQUET', needs_parquet)
 conf_data.set('ARROW_SUBSTRAIT', false)
 conf_data.set('ARROW_AZURE', false)
diff --git a/cpp/subprojects/apache-orc.wrap b/cpp/subprojects/apache-orc.wrap
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b95657cf5bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cpp/subprojects/apache-orc.wrap
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+[wrap-file]
+directory = orc-2.2.0
+source_url = https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua?action=download&filename=orc/orc-2.2.0/orc-2.2.0.tar.gz
+source_fallback_url = https://github.com/mesonbuild/wrapdb/releases/download/apache-orc_2.2.0-1/orc-2.2.0.tar.gz
+source_filename = orc-2.2.0.tar.gz
+source_hash = b15aca45a7e73ffbd1bbc36a78cd1422d41f07721092a25f43448e6e16f4763b
+wrapdb_version = 2.2.0-1
+
+[provide]
+orc = orc_dep