oroko
1. (stative) for the first time - when followed by a derived noun, e.g. oroko taenga mai.
Me hoki te iwi Māori ki te karakia pono ki Te Atua pono, i karakia ai ngā kaumātua, i ngā rā o te oroko taenga mai o ngā minita o Te Atua pono (TW 26/5/1877:197). / The Māori people should return to the authentic prayers to the true God that the elders recited in the days of the first arrival of the ministers of the true God.
Whakatapua māku ngā mea mātāmua katoa; ngā mea katoa a ngā tama a Iharaira e oroko puta mai ana i te kōpū, a te tangata, a te kararehe, māku (PT Ekoruhe 13:2). / Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.
