diff --git a/common/utils/src/main/resources/error/error-conditions.json b/common/utils/src/main/resources/error/error-conditions.json
index 975536c076ddb..543c60fd352e9 100644
--- a/common/utils/src/main/resources/error/error-conditions.json
+++ b/common/utils/src/main/resources/error/error-conditions.json
@@ -2425,6 +2425,11 @@
         "message" : [
           "A higher order function expects <expectedNumArgs> arguments, but got <actualNumArgs>."
         ]
+      },
+      "UNEVALUABLE" : {
+        "message" : [
+          "Evaluable expressions should be used for a lambda function in a higher order function. However, <funcName> was unevaluable."
+        ]
       }
     },
     "sqlState" : "42K0D"
diff --git a/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/analysis/CheckAnalysis.scala b/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/analysis/CheckAnalysis.scala
index bd8f8fe9f6528..43cce38b1a5d2 100644
--- a/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/analysis/CheckAnalysis.scala
+++ b/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/analysis/CheckAnalysis.scala
@@ -254,6 +254,13 @@ trait CheckAnalysis extends PredicateHelper with LookupCatalog with QueryErrorsB
                 hof.invalidFormat(checkRes)
             }
 
+          case e: HigherOrderFunction
+                if e.resolved && e.functions.exists(_.exists(_.isInstanceOf[Unevaluable])) =>
+            val u = e.functions.flatMap(_.find(_.isInstanceOf[Unevaluable])).head
+            e.failAnalysis(
+              errorClass = "INVALID_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_CALL.UNEVALUABLE",
+              messageParameters = Map("funcName" -> toSQLExpr(u)))
+
           // If an attribute can't be resolved as a map key of string type, either the key should be
           // surrounded with single quotes, or there is a typo in the attribute name.
           case GetMapValue(map, key: Attribute) if isMapWithStringKey(map) && !key.resolved =>
diff --git a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/python/PythonUDFSuite.scala b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/python/PythonUDFSuite.scala
index 3101281251b1b..efbb0e4a70312 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/python/PythonUDFSuite.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/python/PythonUDFSuite.scala
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@
 
 package org.apache.spark.sql.execution.python
 
-import org.apache.spark.sql.{IntegratedUDFTestUtils, QueryTest}
-import org.apache.spark.sql.functions.count
+import org.apache.spark.sql.{AnalysisException, IntegratedUDFTestUtils, QueryTest}
+import org.apache.spark.sql.functions.{array, count, transform}
 import org.apache.spark.sql.test.SharedSparkSession
 import org.apache.spark.sql.types.LongType
 
@@ -112,4 +112,16 @@ class PythonUDFSuite extends QueryTest with SharedSparkSession {
     val pandasTestUDF = TestGroupedAggPandasUDF(name = udfName)
     assert(df.agg(pandasTestUDF(df("id"))).schema.fieldNames.exists(_.startsWith(udfName)))
   }
+
+  test("SPARK-48706: Negative test case for Python UDF in higher order functions") {
+    assume(shouldTestPythonUDFs)
+    checkError(
+      exception = intercept[AnalysisException] {
+        spark.range(1).select(transform(array("id"), x => pythonTestUDF(x))).collect()
+      },
+      errorClass = "INVALID_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_CALL.UNEVALUABLE",
+      parameters = Map("funcName" -> "\"pyUDF(namedlambdavariable())\""),
+      context = ExpectedContext(
+        "transform", s".*${this.getClass.getSimpleName}.*"))
+  }
 }